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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

16 km S of Bridgeport, CA

· 2.5 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 39 kmTuolumne County 64 kmAlpine County 75 kmMariposa County 84 kmMineral County 85 kmDouglas County 94 kmLyon County 101 kmMadera County 110 kmCalaveras County 115 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 39 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 48 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 29 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 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 38.1118, -119.2435. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 39 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tuolumne County, CA 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Alpine County, CA 75 km (46 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 84 km (52 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mineral County, NV 85 km (53 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Douglas County, NV 94 km (58 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

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

  1. 1.9 16 km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  2. 2.5 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.8 15 km NNE of Lee Vining, 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 6.0 on 2021-07-08 — it released about 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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