Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.5ml
California-Nevada border region
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 6.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 76 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
- 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 37.1073, -117.9165. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 76 km (47 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 79 km (49 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Mono County, CA | 123 km (77 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Tulare County, CA | 124 km (77 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
49 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.8 56 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
- 1.6 6km NE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.7 8km NNE of Big Pine, CA
- 2.5 44km ENE of Independence, CA
- 1.6 32km ENE of Independence, CA
- 1.6 33km ENE of Independence, CA
- 1.6 6km NNE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.9 33 km E of Big Pine, California
- 1.8 3km NE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.7 7km SE of Wilkerson, CA
- 1.6 8km N of Big Pine, CA
- 1.6 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
- 2.0 5km NE of Big Pine, CA
- 1.8 4km SE of Deep Springs, CA
- 1.8 4km E of Bishop, 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
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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