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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

16km SSE of Bodie, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 47 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 19 kmMineral County 68 kmTuolumne County 89 kmAlpine County 96 kmMariposa County 101 kmLyon County 108 kmDouglas County 109 kmMadera 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
1 report
Nearest
Mono County, 19 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1357 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 47 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 5.8 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 20× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 47 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 38.0733, -118.9503. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 19 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 68 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 96 km (60 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Lyon County, NV 108 km (67 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 13 km WNW of Bridgeport, CA
  2. 2.7 13 km WNW of Bridgeport, CA
  3. 1.6 12 km WNW of Bridgeport, California
  4. 2.6 14 km WNW of Bridgeport, CA
  5. 2.0 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.8 33 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 2.4 42 km N of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 29 km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 2.3 40 km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  10. 1.8 20 km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.9 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 2.2 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.6 10 km NNW of Mono City, California
  14. 2.2 14km SSE of Bridgeport, CA
  15. 1.9 42km S of Qualeys Camp, NV

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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 160,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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