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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

18km WSW of Big Pine, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 98 kmTulare County 100 kmEsmeralda County 107 kmFresno County 111 kmInyo County 112 kmMadera County 113 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 98 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1314 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 37.0948, -118.4783. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 100 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Esmeralda County, NV 107 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Fresno County, CA 111 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 112 km (70 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Madera County, CA 113 km (70 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  2. 2.5 4km NNW of West Bishop, CA
  3. 1.7 8km ESE of Wilkerson, 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 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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