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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

28km NNW of Deep Springs, CA

· 6.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 48 kmMono County 75 kmMineral County 106 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 48 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1972 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.5952, -118.1270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 75 km (46 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 106 km (66 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Inyo County, CA 132 km (82 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2km SSE of Bishop, CA
  2. 2.4 23 km ENE of Benton, California
  3. 1.6 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.8 7km NW of Big Pine, CA
  5. 1.8 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.7 9km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  7. 1.9 8km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.6 8km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  9. 3.4 9km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  10. 3.2 9km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  11. 2.9 12km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  12. 1.7 6km SE of Round Valley, CA
  13. 1.8 31 km NE of Benton, California
  14. 1.8 4km ENE of Round Valley, 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 4.3 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 8,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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