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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

6 km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· -0.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 35 kmMariposa County 77 kmMadera County 78 kmTuolumne County 92 kmFresno County 111 kmMineral County 112 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
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 35 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 656 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 11 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.6342, -119.0418. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 35 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mariposa County, CA 77 km (48 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Madera County, CA 78 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Tuolumne County, CA 92 km (57 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Fresno County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mineral County, NV 112 km (70 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 24 km E of Lee Vining, CA
  2. 3.0 23 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.9 22 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  4. 1.8 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.7 15 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 2.2 13 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.6 26 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.7 17 km W of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.7 2 km S of Round Valley, CA
  10. 1.6 19 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 2.5 15 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.8 15 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 2.4 15 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.6 13 km W of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.8 13 km W 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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