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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

8km WSW of Round Valley, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 62 kmMadera County 96 kmEsmeralda County 103 kmFresno County 110 kmMariposa County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 62 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1440 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 37.3798, -118.6837. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 62 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 96 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 103 km (64 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Fresno County, CA 110 km (69 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mariposa County, CA 111 km (69 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Tuolumne County, CA 133 km (83 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

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

  1. 2.5 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.6 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.8 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  4. 1.8 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.5 15km W of Round Valley, CA
  6. 2.3 22km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  7. 2.6 10km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.7 6km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 California-Nevada border region
  11. 1.6 3km E of Round Valley, CA
  12. 1.9 13km W of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.6 10km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.7 3km ENE of Bishop, CA
  15. 3.1 2km 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 75,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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