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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

8km W of Toms Place, CA

· 5.3 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 40 kmMadera County 96 kmMariposa County 101 kmEsmeralda County 103 kmMineral County 110 kmTuolumne County 117 kmFresno County 119 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 40 km NNW
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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 37.5702, -118.7675. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 96 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 101 km (63 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 103 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 117 km (72 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 41km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  2. 1.5 18km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 2.2 4km WNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  4. 1.5 32km NE of North Fork, CA
  5. 1.5 6km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.5 6km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 2.0 14km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 15km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.9 6km SSE of Round Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 10km W of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.7 10km W of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.8 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 10km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 2.3 11km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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