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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

26km E of Lee Vining, CA

· 0.5 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 10 kmMineral County 68 kmTuolumne County 99 kmMariposa County 106 kmEsmeralda County 108 kmAlpine County 109 kmLyon County 118 kmMadera County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 10 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2032 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 5.7 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 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 37.9988, -118.8332. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 68 km (42 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 99 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mariposa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 108 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Alpine County, CA 109 km (68 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

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

  1. 2.1 31km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.5 34 km NW of Benton, California
  3. 1.5 33 km NW of Benton, California
  4. 1.5 20km NNW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.5 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.8 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.6 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.8 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 2.0 11km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 1.5 33 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  11. 1.6 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  12. 1.6 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.8 31km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  14. 2.1 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.6 7 km NE of Lee Vining, California

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 1,300,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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