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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

2km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 4.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 32 kmMariposa County 84 kmMadera County 84 kmTuolumne County 98 kmMineral County 109 kmFresno County 115 kmEsmeralda County 118 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 32 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1781 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 37.6362, -118.9605. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mariposa County, CA 84 km (52 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Madera County, CA 84 km (52 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Tuolumne County, CA 98 km (61 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 109 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Fresno County, CA 115 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 34km E of Lee Vining, CA
  2. 1.9 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 2.4 6km N of Round Valley, CA
  4. 2.5 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.8 9km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  6. 2.6 9km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  7. 2.0 30km ENE of Shaver Lake, CA
  8. 1.6 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.5 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  10. 1.5 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  11. 2.1 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.2 8km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  13. 1.8 29km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  14. 1.6 17km WSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.9 30km NE of Oakhurst, 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 4.6 on 2020-04-11 — it released about 40,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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