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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

21km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA

· 5.7 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mariposa County 46 kmMono County 56 kmMadera County 56 kmTuolumne County 67 kmFresno County 99 kmAlpine County 117 kmCalaveras County 120 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mariposa County, 46 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2038 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 6.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 37.6235, -119.3912. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mariposa County, CA 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mono County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Tuolumne County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Fresno County, CA 99 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Alpine County, CA 117 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 2km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.7 20km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  3. 1.8 6km NNW of Ahwahnee, CA
  4. 2.0 6km SW of North Fork, CA
  5. 2.4 8km ENE of North Fork, CA
  6. 2.0 6km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  7. 1.8 14km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.7 12km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  9. 1.9 13km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 29km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  11. 1.7 30km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  12. 1.9 30km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  13. 2.6 30km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  14. 1.6 29km ENE of Oakhurst, CA
  15. 1.6 30km NE of Oakhurst, 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 4.0 on 2020-04-05 — it released about 5,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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