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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

13km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 6.7 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 37 kmMadera County 90 kmMariposa County 94 kmTuolumne County 109 kmEsmeralda County 109 kmMineral County 110 kmFresno County 116 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 37 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1437 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.5852, -118.8502. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 37 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 90 km (56 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 94 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Tuolumne County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 109 km (68 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (69 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral 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. 3.1 2km ENE of Bishop, CA
  2. 1.6 25km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 2.6 20km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  4. 2.2 19km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  5. 1.8 19km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  6. 1.6 21km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  7. 2.2 20km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 24 km NW of Benton, California
  9. 1.6 8km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 3 km ENE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California
  11. 2.2 6km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 18km W of Round Valley, CA
  13. 2.2 4km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.8 16km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 2.3 7km N 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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