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M 3.5ml

24 km WSW of Big Pine, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 2.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 96 kmMono County 99 kmFresno County 105 kmMadera County 109 kmEsmeralda County 112 kmInyo County 115 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 3.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
14 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Tulare County, 96 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 960 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 14 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.4× 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 37.0655, -118.5315. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 96 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 99 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Fresno County, CA 105 km (66 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Madera County, CA 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 112 km (70 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 115 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 16 km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.3 16 km SW of Deep Springs, CA
  3. 1.6 6 km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  4. 3.1 4 km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  5. 2.7 4 km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  6. 1.6 2 km WSW of Bishop, CA
  7. 2.2 16 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 6 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  9. 2.6 3 km S of Independence, CA
  10. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bishop, CA
  11. 2.3 10 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  12. 2.3 9 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 4 km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 5 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  15. 1.9 10 km SW of Big Pine, 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 83 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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