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M 2.9ml

29 km NE of Benton, California

· 8.4 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 57 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 37.9929, -118.2282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 57 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mono County
Esmeralda County, NV 57 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mineral County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Lyon County, NV 142 km (88 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lyon County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 9 km NNE of Benton, California
  2. 2.7 28 km NW of Benton, California
  3. 1.7 9 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 1.9 34km E of Lee Vining, CA
  5. 2.7 27 km NW of Benton, California
  6. 2.5 28 km NW of Benton, California
  7. 1.7 34 km ENE of Lee Vining, California
  8. 1.5 13 km WNW of Benton, California
  9. 1.5 9 km WNW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 1.6 34 km NE of Benton, California
  11. 1.5 24 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  12. 1.6 28 km NW of Benton, California
  13. 1.5 31 km NW of Benton, California
  14. 2.1 20 km NW of Benton, California
  15. 1.7 28 km NE of Benton, California

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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