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M 2.2md

1 km ESE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA

· 4.1 km deep · released about 64 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
4.1 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 72 km NW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 769 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 64 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 15× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 64 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 37.3848, -118.3993. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 72 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 81 km (50 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 121 km (75 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Inyo County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 131 km (82 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno 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. 2.8 12 km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  2. 1.9 2 km SW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  3. 2.1 14 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 3.8 2 km SW of Round Valley, CA
  5. 1.6 15 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.7 2 km SSW of Round Valley, CA
  7. 2.5 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 19 km E of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.2 18 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.4 18 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.8 28 km SSE of Dyer, Nevada
  13. 1.8 7 km NW of West Bishop, CA
  14. 2.2 8 km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.7 14 km SW of Toms Place, 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 6,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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