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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

9km W of Toms Place, CA

· 4.8 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 39 kmMadera County 95 kmMariposa County 100 kmEsmeralda County 104 kmMineral County 110 kmTuolumne County 115 kmFresno County 119 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
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 39 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1803 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 8.1 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 1,300,000× 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 8.1 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 37.5730, -118.7800. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 95 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 100 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 104 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral 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

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

  1. 2.4 17km WSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.7 7km E of Round Valley, CA
  3. 1.8 8km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 2.3 22km E of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.6 9km NW of Round Valley, CA
  6. 1.5 32km ENE of Shaver Lake, CA
  7. 2.2 16km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 7km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 2.1 24km ENE of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.9 6km NW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.5 20km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  12. 1.9 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.0 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.5 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.7 14km WSW 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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