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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

7km NW of West Bishop, CA

· 9.7 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 65 kmEsmeralda County 87 kmMadera County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 65 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1802 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 6.2 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 37.4093, -118.5053. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 65 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 87 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 112 km (70 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 125 km (78 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 136 km (84 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 19km SW of Big Pine, CA
  2. 1.5 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 2.2 8km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  4. 1.7 7km E of Round Valley, CA
  5. 1.8 8km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  6. 2.3 22km E of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.6 9km NW of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 32km ENE of Shaver Lake, CA
  9. 2.2 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.6 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 2.1 24km ENE of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.9 6km NW of Round Valley, CA
  13. 1.5 20km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  14. 1.9 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 2.0 14km WNW 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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 70,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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