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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

0km SW of Round Valley, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 61 kmEsmeralda County 95 kmMadera County 104 kmMariposa County 117 kmFresno 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mono County, 61 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1576 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.7× 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 37.4108, -118.6010. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 95 km (59 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 104 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 118 km (73 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 142 km (88 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

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

  1. 1.8 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.0 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
  3. 1.9 6km NE of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.8 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
  5. 1.7 3km NNE of Big Pine, CA
  6. 2.2 6km NE of Big Pine, CA
  7. 2.9 5km NE of Big Pine, CA
  8. 1.8 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
  9. 2.2 7km NE of Big Pine, CA
  10. 1.8 12km W of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.7 5km E of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.0 5km NE of Big Pine, CA
  13. 2.0 5km NE of Big Pine, CA
  14. 1.8 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 2.3 9km WSW 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 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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