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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

18km WSW of Wilkerson, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 81 kmMadera County 103 kmEsmeralda County 104 kmFresno County 108 kmTulare County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 81 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1531 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× 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 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.2250, -118.5812. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 81 km (50 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 103 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 104 km (65 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Fresno County, CA 108 km (67 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 112 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mariposa County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 11km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.6 11km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.8 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.8 11km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  5. 1.8 8km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  6. 1.5 8km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  7. 1.7 13km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 2.8 16km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.7 14km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.1 5km E of Wilkerson, CA
  11. 1.7 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 2.5 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.1 46km SW of Wilkerson, CA
  14. 2.3 5km E of Wilkerson, CA
  15. 1.8 17km WSW 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 57,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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