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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

25 km WSW of Big Pine, CA

· 8.0 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 95 kmMono County 99 kmFresno County 105 kmMadera County 109 kmEsmeralda County 113 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 95 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1028 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 37.0645, -118.5382. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 95 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 (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Madera County, CA 109 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 113 km (70 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 115 km (72 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. 1.6 16 km SW of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 2.7 16 km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  3. 2.3 16 km SW of Deep Springs, CA
  4. 1.6 6 km WNW of West Bishop, CA
  5. 3.1 4 km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  6. 2.7 4 km WSW of Round Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 2 km WSW of Bishop, CA
  8. 2.2 16 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.6 6 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 2.6 3 km S of Independence, CA
  11. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bishop, CA
  12. 2.3 10 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  13. 2.3 9 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 4 km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.7 5 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, 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 51,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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