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M 1.5md

3km SSE of Bishop, CA

· 8.6 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 77 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1886 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 5.4 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 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.3433, -118.3807. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 123 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 130 km (81 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.9 7km NE of Round Valley, CA
  3. 1.6 5km SSE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 1.8 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.2 6km E of Round Valley, CA
  6. 2.2 5km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 3.4 5km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 3.3 6km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.6 9km W of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.8 10km SW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.5 7km NW of West Bishop, CA
  12. 2.1 12km W of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.0 12km W of Toms Place, CA
  14. 2.7 6km NE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.5 17km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, 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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 80,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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