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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

28km SE of Bodie, CA

· 8.2 km deep · released about 700 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 21 kmMineral County 57 kmEsmeralda County 103 kmTuolumne County 107 kmAlpine County 110 kmLyon County 113 kmMariposa County 116 kmDouglas 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 21 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2108 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 700 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 700 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 38.0708, -118.7445. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 57 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 107 km (66 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 110 km (69 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Lyon County, NV 113 km (70 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

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

  1. 2.8 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.8 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.8 29 km NNE of Benton, California
  4. 2.4 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.0 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  6. 1.5 33 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  7. 2.9 33 km SSW of Mina, NV
  8. 1.7 28.2 km NE of Hawthorne, NV
  9. 1.7 33.7 km NNE of Mina, NV
  10. 1.6 32 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  11. 1.6 42km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.5 12km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 1.6 35 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.7 10km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.8 11km ENE 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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