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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

37 km NE of Independence, California

· 11 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 67 kmEsmeralda County 86 kmTulare County 119 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 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 67 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 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 37.0285, -117.8884. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 67 km (42 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 86 km (54 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 119 km (74 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 132 km (82 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 54km ENE of Independence, CA
  2. 1.8 4 km SE of Big Pine, California
  3. 1.5 55 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.8 16km W of Independence, CA
  5. 1.5 50 km NE of Keeler, California
  6. 1.6 6 km E of Wilkerson, California
  7. 2.1 19km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  8. 1.6 7 km E of Wilkerson, California
  9. 1.8 41 km NE of Independence, California
  10. 2.2 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  11. 2.0 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  12. 2.5 25 km E of Bishop, California
  13. 1.6 57 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  14. 1.7 19km ENE of Lone Pine, CA
  15. 1.6 66km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, 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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