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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.7md

21 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 3.5 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 54 kmMadera County 70 kmMariposa County 80 kmFresno County 95 kmTuolumne County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 54 km NNE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 349 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 37.4462, -119.0175. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 70 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 80 km (50 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tuolumne County, CA 105 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 130 km (81 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 1.8 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.6 11 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 2.0 12 km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.5 9 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.5 8 km N of Round Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.4 4 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 2.1 4 km E of Round Valley, CA
  10. 2.5 12 km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  11. 2.5 2 km SW of West Bishop, CA
  12. 1.5 17 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.1 18 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  14. 1.8 14 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.9 22 km SW 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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