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M 1.8md

7 km NW of West Bishop, CA

· -0.2 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 66 kmEsmeralda County 89 kmMadera County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
-0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 66 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 675 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 37.3968, -118.5158. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 89 km (55 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 111 km (69 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 123 km (77 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 136 km (84 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 13 km W of Round Valley, CA
  2. 1.8 13 km W of Toms Place, CA
  3. 2.6 16 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.7 19 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.6 15 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.7 9 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  7. 1.7 8 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.5 8 km NE of Round Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 9 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.7 17 km SSW of Big Pine, CA
  11. 2.7 3 km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 2.1 22 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.5 22 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.6 8 km SSW of West Bishop, CA
  15. 1.5 2 km WSW of Bishop, 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 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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