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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.7mw

13km SSE of Bodie, CA

· 9.6 km deep · released about 4.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 22 kmMineral County 66 kmTuolumne County 89 kmAlpine County 94 kmMariposa County 103 kmLyon County 105 kmDouglas 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 3.7 (mw)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 22 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1744 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 36,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 4.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 9.8× more

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 38.1018, -118.9533. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 22 km (14 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Lyon County, NV 105 km (65 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

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

  1. 1.7 42km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  2. 2.0 16km WNW of Bridgeport, CA
  3. 2.6 13 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.9 35 km NNW of Benton, California
  5. 1.9 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.7 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.3 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.6 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.5 27 km NNW of Benton, California
  10. 2.0 12km SSE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.8 19 km ENE of Mono City, California
  12. 1.6 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.5 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  14. 1.6 19 km ENE of Mono City, California
  15. 2.5 29km 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 810 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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