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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

20km SSW of Big Pine, CA

· 0.6 km deep · released about 44 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 94 kmInyo County 96 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmMono County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 94 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2522 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 44 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 240,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 44 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 36.9925, -118.3370. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 94 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 96 km (60 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 113 km (70 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Fresno County, CA 120 km (75 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

31 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.1 29km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.4 19km S of Big Pine, CA
  3. 1.5 2km SSW of Bishop, CA
  4. 1.6 5km SE of Round Valley, CA
  5. 1.6 7km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  6. 3.3 6km E of Independence, CA
  7. 1.5 7km SE of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.0 14km N of Lone Pine, CA
  9. 1.6 14km N of Lone Pine, CA
  10. 1.5 4km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  11. 1.6 11km SW of West Bishop, CA
  12. 1.7 14km SW of West Bishop, CA
  13. 1.8 7km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  14. 1.8 8km S of Wilkerson, CA
  15. 1.9 1km NNE of Wilkerson, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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