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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

27km ESE of Bodie, CA

· 7.7 km deep · released about 830 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 22 kmMineral County 56 kmEsmeralda County 104 kmTuolumne County 107 kmAlpine County 109 kmLyon County 112 kmMariposa County 117 kmDouglas County 118 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 22 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 830 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 830 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 38.0823, -118.7495. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 22 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 104 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 107 km (66 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Lyon County, NV 112 km (69 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 23 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.3 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  3. 1.6 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.5 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.8 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.9 26 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.5 33 km E of Mono City, California
  8. 1.6 25 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  9. 1.6 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  10. 2.8 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  11. 2.0 32 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  12. 3.1 29 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  13. 1.8 33 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.7 32 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.8 40km 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 9,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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