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M 4.5mw

8 km SSE of Deep Springs, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 97 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (mw)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
139 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 57 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 91 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 139 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 97 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,700× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 97 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 200× more

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 37.3160, -117.9207. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 57 km (36 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 96 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 7 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 1.6 38 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  3. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.6 58 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.5 20 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.6 34 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 2.4 5 km WNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 2.6 3 km SE of Wilkerson, CA
  9. 2.5 24 km SE of Big Pine, CA
  10. 1.8 13 km SW of Big Pine, California
  11. 1.9 8 km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  12. 1.7 39 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.7 11 km NE of Big Pine, California
  14. 2.1 46 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 2.2 7 km ENE of Wilkerson, 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 2.2 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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