QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6mw

13km W of Toms Place, CA

· 9.9 km deep · released about 4.1 tons of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 37 kmMadera County 92 kmMariposa County 96 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmMineral County 110 kmTuolumne County 112 kmFresno County 117 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (mw)
Depth
9.9 km below the surface
Felt
165 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 37 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2366 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 165 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 42,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 4.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 8.5× more

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 37.5822, -118.8218. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 37 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 92 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 96 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (66 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 112 km (69 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.4 13km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 3.4 5km NNW of Round Valley, CA
  3. 2.5 22km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.0 15km W of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.6 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 6km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.5 4km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 1.9 6km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.7 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.5 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 11km SW of West Bishop, CA
  12. 1.5 9km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  13. 1.9 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.7 14km SW of West Bishop, CA
  15. 2.1 4km WSW of Mammoth Lakes, 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.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.