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M 3.8mw

16km N of Deep Springs, CA

· -0.8 km deep · released about 6.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 41 kmMono County 93 kmInyo County 116 kmMineral 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 3.8 (mw)
Depth
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 41 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1226 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 27,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 840× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 6.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 13× more

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 37.5105, -117.9557. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 41 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 93 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 116 km (72 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mineral County, NV 119 km (74 mi) SSE 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. 1.9 California-Nevada border region
  2. 3.1 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.7 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 4.3 64km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  5. 2.8 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.5 26 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada
  7. 2.1 15km NE of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 1.7 30 km SE of Dyer, Nevada
  9. 2.3 14km NE of Deep Springs, CA
  10. 1.9 25 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  11. 1.6 24 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  12. 1.5 17 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  13. 2.2 16km N of Deep Springs, CA
  14. 1.5 18 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  15. 2.4 17km N of Deep Springs, 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 2022-01-06 — it released about 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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