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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

18 km E of Toms Place, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 51 kmEsmeralda County 78 kmMineral County 104 kmMadera County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 51 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 481 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 40 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 37.5797, -118.4772. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 51 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 78 km (48 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 104 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Madera County, CA 120 km (74 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 138 km (86 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 148 km (92 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

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

  1. 1.9 12 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.4 20 km N of Benton, California
  3. 2.0 4 km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  4. 2.0 17 km SW of Round Valley, CA
  5. 2.3 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 2.0 16 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 7 km E of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.8 10 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.9 40 km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  10. 2.1 18 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 2.1 16 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 39 km E of Lee Vining, CA
  13. 1.6 13 km SW of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 6 km NNE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.5 41 km N 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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — 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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