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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

20km S of Big Pine, CA

· 5.6 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 94 kmInyo County 94 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmMono County 115 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
5.6 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 2398 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 130 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 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 36.9850, -118.3168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 94 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 94 km (58 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 115 km (71 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Fresno County, CA 122 km (76 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

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

  1. 2.2 18km SW of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 2.3 18km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  3. 1.6 13km WSW of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.5 35 km E of Big Pine, California
  5. 1.6 38 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  6. 1.5 29 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  7. 1.7 26km E of Big Pine, CA
  8. 2.1 6km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.9 9km NE of Wilkerson, CA
  10. 2.4 3km ESE of Bishop, CA
  11. 2.1 12km SE of Independence, CA
  12. 1.6 12 km SW of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.9 3 km N of Lone Pine, California
  14. 1.8 22 km NNE of Independence, California
  15. 1.8 1km ENE of Bishop, 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 3,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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