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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5mw

6km WNW of Bodie, CA

· 9.0 km deep · released about 3.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 39 kmMineral County 66 kmAlpine County 77 kmTuolumne County 81 kmDouglas County 88 kmLyon County 89 kmMariposa County 103 kmCarson City 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 3.5 (mw)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
14 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 39 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1597 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 14 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 3.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6.5× more

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 38.2258, -119.0800. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 39 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Alpine County, CA 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Tuolumne County, CA 81 km (50 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Douglas County, NV 88 km (55 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lyon County, NV 89 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  2. 2.2 7km SW of Walker, CA
  3. 1.6 5 km ESE of Walker, California
  4. 1.6 6 km ENE of Walker, California
  5. 1.7 6 km ENE of Walker, California
  6. 1.5 6 km NE of Walker, California
  7. 2.5 18km S of Walker, CA
  8. 1.6 27 km NNW of Benton, California
  9. 2.3 8km S of Walker, CA
  10. 2.3 32km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.4 28 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  12. 1.8 3 km W of Walker, California
  13. 1.5 6 km ENE of Walker, California
  14. 2.3 8km SSE of Walker, CA
  15. 2.1 17km NE of Lee Vining, 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 6.0 on 2021-07-08 — it released about 4,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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