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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

20 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 51 kmMadera County 76 kmMariposa County 86 kmFresno County 100 kmTuolumne County 109 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 51 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 229 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 37.4570, -118.9445. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mono County
Madera County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 86 km (54 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Fresno County, CA 100 km (62 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tuolumne County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 121 km (75 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  2. 1.7 21 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  3. 1.7 11 km W of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.5 19 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  5. 1.5 19 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  6. 2.6 14 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.6 20 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 2.1 8 km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.9 15 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  10. 1.7 31 km NE of North Fork, CA
  11. 2.0 7 km SSW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  12. 1.6 16 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  14. 1.8 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.6 11 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 520 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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