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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

9km W of Big Pine, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 93 kmEsmeralda County 95 kmTulare County 111 kmInyo County 111 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 93 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2068 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 37.1747, -118.3917. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 93 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 95 km (59 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 121 km (75 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

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

  1. 2.5 2km S of Round Valley, CA
  2. 2.2 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  3. 2.3 22km SW of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.6 12km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  5. 2.4 21km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
  6. 2.1 7km SE of Bishop, CA
  7. 3.1 12km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.8 7km NE of Wilkerson, CA
  9. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  10. 2.0 13km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.8 19km E of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.1 7 km SE of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.7 5km N of Round Valley, CA
  14. 2.4 15km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 3.4 14km 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 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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