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M 2.1md

13km WSW of Deep Springs, CA

· 9.8 km deep · released about 51 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 66 kmMono County 94 kmInyo County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 66 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1490 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 51 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 51 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 37.3223, -118.1132. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 105 km (66 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

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

  1. 2.4 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.8 18km WSW of Big Pine, CA
  3. 1.6 California-Nevada border region
  4. 1.6 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 2.1 11km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  6. 1.5 2 km ENE of Bishop, California
  7. 1.6 7km NE of Wilkerson, CA
  8. 1.9 2km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.8 4km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  10. 2.3 22km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  11. 1.7 6km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  12. 1.7 California-Nevada border region
  13. 1.6 3km E of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.8 8km SE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.7 3km ENE of 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 8,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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