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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

10km N of Lee Vining, CA

· 2.5 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 27 kmTuolumne County 72 kmMineral County 82 kmAlpine County 86 kmMariposa County 86 kmDouglas County 104 kmMadera County 108 kmLyon County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 27 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2406 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 92,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 38.0483, -119.1390. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tuolumne County, CA 72 km (45 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Alpine County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 86 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Douglas County, NV 104 km (64 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 30km ESE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.8 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 2.0 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.0 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.6 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 2.4 31km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.7 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 2.0 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 2.1 34 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  10. 3.0 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.6 31km ESE of Bodie, CA
  12. 5.2 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 2.5 22km N of Bridgeport, CA
  14. 2.0 10km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 2.0 4km SW of Bridgeport, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 65,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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