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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

10 km SW of West Bishop, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 76 kmEsmeralda County 96 kmMadera County 109 kmFresno County 116 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 76 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 305 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.2935, -118.5278. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 76 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 96 km (59 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Madera County, CA 109 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 116 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 121 km (75 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 129 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 6 km NNE of Big Pine, CA
  2. 1.8 5 km NNE of Big Pine, CA
  3. 2.1 8 km SSW of Toms Place, CA
  4. 1.9 15 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  5. 1.7 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  6. 1.8 19 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.6 11 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.0 12 km WNW of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.5 9 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  10. 1.5 8 km N of Round Valley, CA
  11. 1.6 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.4 4 km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 2.1 4 km E of Round Valley, CA
  14. 2.5 12 km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  15. 2.2 11 km ENE of Big Pine, 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 80,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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