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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.9ml

7 km W of West Bishop, CA

· 5.2 km deep · released about 630 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 71 kmEsmeralda County 93 kmMadera County 109 kmFresno County 119 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
5.2 km below the surface
Felt
29 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mono County, 71 km NNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 488 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 29 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 630 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 24,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 630 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 37.3428, -118.5318. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 71 km (44 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 93 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 119 km (74 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 133 km (82 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

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

  1. 1.9 12 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.2 3 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  3. 2.6 17 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  4. 2.1 12 km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  5. 1.6 2 km WSW of Bishop, CA
  6. 1.7 12 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 2.3 16 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.7 8 km E of Big Pine, CA
  9. 1.9 11 km E of Big Pine, CA
  10. 2.0 16 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.8 16 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.8 16 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  13. 1.9 10 km E of Big Pine, CA
  14. 1.9 15 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 2.5 15 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, 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 680 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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