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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

3 km W of Markleeville, CA

· -1.4 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alpine County 7 kmDouglas County 31 kmCarson City 53 kmEl Dorado County 62 kmLyon County 66 kmTuolumne County 74 kmAmador County 77 kmCalaveras County 84 kmStorey County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
-1.4 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Alpine County, 7 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 647 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 77 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 77 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 38.6815, -119.8277. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alpine County, CA 7 km (4 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 31 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Carson City
El Dorado County, CA 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Lyon County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Tuolumne County, CA 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 22 km SSW of Tahoma, CA
  2. 1.8 22 km SSW of Tahoma, CA
  3. 1.9 10 km NNE of Fish Springs, Nevada
  4. 1.5 5 km W of Walker, California
  5. 1.6 1 km SE of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  6. 1.8 2 km NNW of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  7. 1.7 12 km SW of Walker, California
  8. 2.0 7 km SW of Markleeville, CA
  9. 2.4 6 km SW of Markleeville, CA
  10. 2.2 4 km SW of Walker, CA
  11. 1.5 3 km W of Topaz Lake, Nevada
  12. 1.6 1 km SE of Johnson Lane, Nevada
  13. 2.1 19 km NNW of Walker, CA
  14. 1.5 4 km W of Walker, California
  15. 1.5 14 km SSW of Walker, California

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 6.0 on 2021-07-08 — it released about 390,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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