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M 1.9md

7km E of Wilkerson, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 82 kmMono County 88 kmInyo County 112 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 82 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2045 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 37.2690, -118.3063. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 88 km (54 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 112 km (70 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 123 km (77 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 132 km (82 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

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

  1. 2.6 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 2.1 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 3.1 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.9 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.6 14km SW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.7 14km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 4km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.7 28km NNW of Deep Springs, CA
  9. 1.9 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.6 5km NNE of Wilkerson, CA
  11. 1.7 6km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.4 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 2km E of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.9 4km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 2.0 3km NNE of Wilkerson, 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 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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