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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

15km WSW of Toms Place, CA

· 5.6 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 46 kmMadera County 88 kmMariposa County 96 kmEsmeralda County 110 kmFresno County 110 kmTuolumne County 115 kmMineral 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 46 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1944 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 37.5025, -118.8273. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 88 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 96 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 110 km (68 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Fresno County, CA 110 km (69 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tuolumne County, CA 115 km (72 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 Central California
  2. 2.4 19km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  3. 2.2 2km SSE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 2.2 9km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.6 17 km NNW of Sunny Slopes, California
  6. 1.5 3km SSE of Bishop, CA
  7. 1.9 1km SSE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 1.6 22km NE of North Fork, CA
  9. 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.6 0km ENE of Bishop, CA
  11. 1.9 9km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 12km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 1.8 22km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 2.4 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  15. 2.1 6km ESE 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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