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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

39km NNE of Toms Place, CA

· 7.4 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 28 kmMineral County 70 kmEsmeralda County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 28 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2005 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 37.8970, -118.5553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 28 km (17 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 70 km (43 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mariposa County, CA 125 km (77 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Madera County, CA 130 km (81 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Alpine County, CA 135 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine 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. 1.9 36 km NNE of Benton, California
  2. 1.6 36 km N of Benton, California
  3. 2.1 36 km NNE of Benton, California
  4. 2.5 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.5 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.7 27km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.0 33 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  9. 3.1 32 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.5 11 km NW of Benton, California
  11. 1.8 34km E of Lee Vining, CA
  12. 1.5 36 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  13. 1.7 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.6 29 km S of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.6 31 km SSW of Mina, Nevada

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 5.2 on 2020-04-11 — it released about 340,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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