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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.0md

12 km N of Lee Vining, CA

· 2.3 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 29 kmTuolumne County 72 kmMineral County 81 kmAlpine County 84 kmMariposa County 87 kmDouglas County 102 kmLyon County 107 kmMadera County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
2.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 29 km SE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 292 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 38.0623, -119.1427. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tuolumne County, CA 72 km (45 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Mineral County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Alpine County, CA 84 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Douglas County, NV 102 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 30 km ENE of Bridgeport, California
  2. 1.7 32 km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.5 32 km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 2.1 39 km E of Lee Vining, CA
  5. 1.9 27 km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 1.7 5 km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.6 26 km SW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  8. 1.8 18 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  9. 1.7 29 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.7 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  11. 2.4 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  12. 1.7 21 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  13. 1.6 15 km ESE of Bridgeport, California
  14. 1.9 29 km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.7 28 km SE of Bodie, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 290,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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