QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

5 km WSW of Toms Place, CA

· 9.2 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 45 kmMadera County 97 kmEsmeralda County 100 kmMariposa County 105 kmMineral County 113 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 45 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 418 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 37.5300, -118.7243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 45 km (28 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mariposa County, CA 105 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mineral County, NV 113 km (70 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Fresno County, CA 119 km (74 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno 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. 1.5 19 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.2 7 km ENE of Wilkerson, CA
  3. 2.0 20 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.2 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 2.4 1 km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  6. 1.6 13 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 6 km NNW of Round Valley, CA
  8. 2.1 3 km NE of Bishop, CA
  9. 2.5 22 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 1.9 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.5 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 2.0 23 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  15. 1.6 16 km S 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 3,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.