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M 3.2ml

5km ESE of Shaver Lake, CA

· 45 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madera County 45 kmFresno County 50 kmMariposa County 79 kmMono County 99 kmTulare County 104 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
45 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Madera County, 45 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2241 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,700 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× 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 37.0832, -119.2688. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madera County, CA 45 km (28 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mariposa County, CA 79 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mono County, CA 99 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 104 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Tuolumne County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4km WSW of Auberry, CA
  2. 1.8 3 km NNW of Shaver Lake, California
  3. 1.8 2km NNW of Coarsegold, CA
  4. 1.5 33km NE of Shaver Lake, CA
  5. 1.7 26km NNE of Shaver Lake, CA
  6. 2.1 2km SW of Shaver Lake, CA
  7. 1.5 11km NNE of North Fork, CA
  8. 1.7 25km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  9. 2.0 11km S of Yosemite Lakes, CA
  10. 2.1 2km NW of North Fork, CA
  11. 2.5 20km NE of Shaver Lake, CA
  12. 1.8 12km NNE of North Fork, CA
  13. 1.9 4km NW of Yosemite 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.

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