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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

13km SSE of Bodie, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 22 kmMineral County 67 kmTuolumne County 87 kmAlpine County 92 kmMariposa County 101 kmLyon County 104 kmDouglas County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 22 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1824 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 38.1025, -118.9720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 22 km (14 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 87 km (54 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 101 km (63 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Lyon County, NV 104 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 38km E of Lee Vining, CA
  2. 1.6 14km SSE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.7 14km SSE of Bodie, CA
  4. 1.7 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  5. 1.8 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  6. 2.0 42km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  7. 1.5 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.6 14km SSE of Bodie, CA
  9. 2.2 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  10. 2.0 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.5 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.9 30 km E of Bridgeport, California
  13. 1.8 19 km NW of Benton, California
  14. 2.2 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  15. 2.3 31km SE of Bodie, 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 970,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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