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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

18km WSW of Toms Place, CA

· 5.0 km deep · released about 270 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 46 kmMadera County 85 kmMariposa County 92 kmFresno County 108 kmTuolumne County 112 kmEsmeralda County 113 kmMineral 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mono County, 46 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 270 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 57,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 40,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 270 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 37.5028, -118.8675. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tuolumne County, CA 112 km (70 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 113 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 13km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  2. 1.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.7 5km N of Round Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 21km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  5. 1.7 12km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 2.9 14km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.9 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.8 34km E of Lee Vining, CA
  9. 2.5 15km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.6 13km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  11. 2.3 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.9 8km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 1.7 17km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.8 6km SW of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.9 5km SW 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 470 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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