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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

8km N of Big Pine, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 83 kmMono County 92 kmInyo County 108 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 83 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1674 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 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 37.2368, -118.2828. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 83 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 92 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 121 km (75 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 7km NNW of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.5 2km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  3. 3.1 21km NE of Independence, CA
  4. 2.2 18km W of Round Valley, CA
  5. 2.6 18km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  6. 2.9 1km ENE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  7. 2.1 1km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 1.8 0km NNW of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.5 1km S of Round Valley, CA
  10. 3.0 0km SW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 2.3 34km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.4 33km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  13. 1.9 33km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  14. 2.7 33km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.7 18km E 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 61,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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