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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

12km WNW of Toms Place, CA

· 5.9 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 36 kmMadera County 94 kmMariposa County 97 kmEsmeralda County 105 kmMineral County 108 kmTuolumne County 112 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 36 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1339 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 37.5953, -118.8075. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 36 km (22 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 94 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 97 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Esmeralda County, NV 105 km (65 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 108 km (67 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 112 km (70 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

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

  1. 2.0 17km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.5 2km NNE of West Bishop, CA
  3. 1.8 6km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  4. 2.5 3km N of West Bishop, CA
  5. 2.2 37km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  6. 1.7 20km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  7. 1.5 37km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 1.8 9km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 2.2 18km SW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 3.0 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.8 18km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 2.5 9km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.8 22km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 2.9 22km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.7 13km 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 4.6 on 2020-04-11 — it released about 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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