Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.5md
22 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.5 (md)
- Depth
- 7.4 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 340 days ago
This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 37.4447, -119.0228. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono County, CA | 54 km (34 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Madera County, CA | 69 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 | 94 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 | 131 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.
- 1.7 21 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
- 1.7 11 km W of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 19 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
- 1.5 19 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
- 2.6 14 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 8 km SSW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.9 15 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.7 31 km NE of North Fork, CA
- 2.0 7 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.6 16 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
- 1.7 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.8 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.6 11 km SW of Toms Place, CA
- 2.0 12 km WNW of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 9 km E 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 4.4 on 2020-02-01 — it released about 640 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.