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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

6km NNW of West Bishop, CA

· 6.5 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 66 kmEsmeralda County 85 kmMadera County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 66 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1774 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 37.4150, -118.4820. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 85 km (53 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 114 km (71 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 135 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

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

  1. 1.7 11km SW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 2.4 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
  3. 2.0 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.5 16km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  5. 1.5 15km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.6 15km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  7. 1.7 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.7 25 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  9. 2.3 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.8 15km SW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 2km WNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  12. 1.5 31km SSW of Round Valley, CA
  13. 2.4 1km ENE of Bishop, CA
  14. 1.9 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 2.4 6km N of Round Valley, 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 43,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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