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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5ml

10km NNW of Deep Springs, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 2.3 tons of TNT

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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 3.5 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
22 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 50 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2251 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 22 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 75,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.7× 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 37.4503, -118.0250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 50 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 91 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 113 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 123 km (77 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.5 27 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.8 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 2.2 26 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 1.5 2km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  6. 1.7 12km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  7. 1.9 14km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 1.6 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 2.1 62km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  10. 1.9 3km E of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.9 16 km NW of Dyer, Nevada
  12. 1.8 12 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 2.3 6km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 21 km S of Dyer, Nevada
  15. 2.0 8km NE of Big Pine, 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 95 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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