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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

6km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 2.4 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 29 kmMariposa County 89 kmMadera County 89 kmTuolumne County 101 kmMineral County 105 kmEsmeralda County 113 kmFresno County 119 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
2.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 29 km N
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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 37.6543, -118.9115. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mariposa County, CA 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Madera County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Tuolumne County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 105 km (65 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 113 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.0 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.8 39km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  3. 2.3 38km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  4. 1.7 5km SW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  5. 1.9 5km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.7 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 2.2 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 15km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.7 4km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 1.6 4km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 1.9 20km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 15km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  13. 1.8 15km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  14. 1.6 3km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.7 3km E 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 4,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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