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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

12km S of Big Pine, CA

· -1.3 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 97 kmEsmeralda County 100 kmTulare County 101 kmMono 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
-1.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 97 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1588 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 37.0543, -118.3088. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 97 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 101 km (63 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 108 km (67 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Fresno County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 0km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  2. 1.8 10km NNW of Independence, CA
  3. 1.8 9km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  4. 2.3 7km NE of Round Valley, CA
  5. 1.8 27 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  6. 1.6 13 km NE of Big Pine, California
  7. 1.5 2km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 1.6 18km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  9. 2.7 1km W of Round Valley, CA
  10. 2.1 7km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  11. 1.6 32km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.3 9km NE of Big Pine, CA
  13. 1.9 7km SE of Round Valley, CA
  14. 2.5 8km SSE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 2.0 8km WSW of West Bishop, 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 31,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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