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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

7km NNW of Lee Vining, CA

· -0.8 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 27 kmTuolumne County 71 kmMariposa County 82 kmMineral County 85 kmAlpine County 87 kmMadera County 104 kmDouglas County 106 kmLyon County 112 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
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 27 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1768 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 7.8 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 1,400,000× 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 7.8 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 38.0160, -119.1595. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tuolumne County, CA 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mariposa County, CA 82 km (51 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mineral County, NV 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Alpine County, CA 87 km (54 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Madera County, CA 104 km (64 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Madera County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 16km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  2. 2.3 33km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  3. 1.6 12km E of Yosemite Valley, CA
  4. 2.8 6km WNW of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.8 6km WNW of Bodie, CA
  6. 3.5 6km WNW of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.6 16km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 16km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  10. 2.1 16km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  11. 2.1 16km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  12. 2.2 27km ESE of Bodie, CA
  13. 2.7 27km ESE of Bodie, CA
  14. 1.6 27km ESE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 27km ESE 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 970,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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