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M 2.2ml

19 km N of Benton, California

· 9.9 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 35 kmMineral County 59 kmEsmeralda County 79 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
9.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 35 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2872 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 37.9903, -118.4920. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 35 km (22 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 79 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 130 km (81 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 134 km (83 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 141 km (87 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 13 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  2. 1.5 21km SSE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.6 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 1.5 30km E of Lee Vining, CA
  5. 1.6 22 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.6 22 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  7. 2.2 41km N of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.2 41km N of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.8 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  10. 1.6 21km SSE of Bodie, CA
  11. 1.6 20km SSE of Bodie, CA
  12. 2.0 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 2.3 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  14. 2.5 21km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 21km SSE of Bodie, 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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