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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

29 km SE of Bodie, CA

· 9.4 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 15 kmMineral County 63 kmTuolumne County 104 kmEsmeralda County 104 kmAlpine County 111 kmMariposa County 112 kmLyon County 116 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 15 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 764 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 38.0317, -118.7788. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 15 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 63 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 104 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 104 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Alpine County, CA 111 km (69 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 112 km (69 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  2. 2.0 32 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.8 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.5 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  5. 1.6 27 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 1.5 29 km NW of Benton, California
  7. 1.6 34 km E of Lee Vining, CA
  8. 2.4 18 km SSE of Bodie, CA
  9. 1.6 24 km E of Lee Vining, CA
  10. 2.9 27 km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.5 26 km NNE of Benton, California
  12. 1.7 42 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  13. 3.0 42 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  14. 2.5 42 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  15. 2.1 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 730,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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