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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

9km NE of Wilkerson, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 78 kmMono County 83 kmInyo County 117 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 78 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2290 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 37.3228, -118.3088. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 78 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 83 km (51 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 117 km (73 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 1.7 25km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  2. 1.7 13km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  3. 2.2 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.6 13km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.7 11km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.8 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 3.4 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.1 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.7 12km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.8 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.5 13km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.0 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.1 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.6 8km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  15. 2.8 4km N of Round Valley, 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 24,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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