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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

31km SE of Bodie, CA

· 5.2 km deep · released about 56 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 20 kmMineral County 59 kmEsmeralda County 100 kmTuolumne County 109 kmAlpine County 114 kmLyon County 116 kmMariposa County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
5.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 20 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2246 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 56 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 270,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 190,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 17× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 56 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 38.0452, -118.7245. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 20 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Lyon County, NV 116 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.6 28 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  3. 1.9 26 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.6 32 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  5. 1.5 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.7 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.6 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  8. 1.5 35 km NE of Benton, California
  9. 2.0 29 km NE of Benton, California
  10. 1.8 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.7 29 km NE of Benton, California
  12. 1.9 27 km NE of Benton, California
  13. 3.4 29 km NE of Benton, California
  14. 1.6 30km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 31km SE of Bodie, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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