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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

32 km SE of Bodie, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 19 kmMineral County 60 kmEsmeralda County 100 kmTuolumne County 109 kmAlpine County 114 kmMariposa County 116 kmLyon County 117 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 19 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 90 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× 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 38.0382, -118.7252. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 60 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 109 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 116 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 13 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  4. 1.7 36 km N of Benton, California
  5. 1.8 15 km NNE of Lee Vining, CA
  6. 1.6 13 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 2.0 16 km S of Bridgeport, CA
  8. 1.8 37 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.6 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 2.1 33 km N of Benton, California
  11. 2.0 33 km N of Benton, California
  12. 1.7 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.6 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 2.1 24 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.6 24 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

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 640,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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