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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

17 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 3.4 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 46 kmMadera County 84 kmMariposa County 92 kmFresno County 108 kmTuolumne County 112 kmEsmeralda County 113 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 46 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 850 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 37.5047, -118.8717. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 46 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tuolumne County, CA 112 km (70 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 113 km (70 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 10 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 2.0 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.7 7 km NNE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 14 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.9 13 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.7 18 km E of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.7 14 km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.4 13 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  9. 1.8 10 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 2.2 18 km W of Toms Place, CA
  11. 2.0 23 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  12. 2.3 7 km SE of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.1 27 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 2.5 13 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.5 4 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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