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M 2.4md

4 km SSE of Shaver Lake, CA

· 40 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madera County 43 kmFresno County 46 kmMariposa County 78 kmMono County 102 kmTulare County 104 kmKings County 120 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Madera County, 43 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 89 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 37.0667, -119.3012. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madera County, CA 43 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Fresno County, CA 46 km (29 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mariposa County, CA 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mono County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 104 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 120 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kings County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 1 km S of Orange Cove, CA
  2. 1.7 7 km E of Yosemite Lakes, CA
  3. 1.8 11 km S of Yosemite Lakes, CA
  4. 1.7 7 km ENE of Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos, CA
  5. 2.1 6 km ENE of Orange Cove, CA
  6. 1.9 8 km ESE of Coarsegold, CA
  7. 1.5 29 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 1.9 7 km N of Shaver Lake, CA
  9. 1.6 31 km NNE of North Fork, CA
  10. 2.0 8 km ESE of Coarsegold, CA
  11. 2.1 9 km E of Friant, 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.

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