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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

17km SE of Bodie, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 20 kmMineral County 63 kmTuolumne County 94 kmAlpine County 98 kmLyon County 106 kmMariposa County 106 kmDouglas County 109 kmEsmeralda County 116 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mono County, 20 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1963 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.3× more

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 38.0950, -118.8942. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 20 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 63 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 94 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Lyon County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Mariposa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 32 km NW of Benton, California
  2. 2.3 30km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  3. 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.3 31km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.6 30 km NNE of Benton, California
  6. 2.1 31km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.5 34 km NW of Benton, California
  8. 1.5 33 km NW of Benton, California
  9. 1.5 20km NNW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.5 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.5 33 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  12. 1.6 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.6 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 31km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  15. 2.1 41km NNE of Toms Place, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 3,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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