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M 1.7ml

55 km E of Big Pine, California

· 11 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 62 kmInyo County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 62 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2860 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.2211, -117.6697. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 62 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 77 km (48 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 131 km (82 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Nye County, NV 135 km (84 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Tulare County, CA 148 km (92 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

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

  1. 3.4 20km NNE of Deep Springs, CA
  2. 2.2 30 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.8 10km NE of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.6 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.5 57km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  6. 2.1 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 2.0 60 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.5 39 km NNE of Keeler, California
  9. 1.5 47km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  10. 1.7 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 3.3 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 1.9 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 2.4 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  14. 1.6 54 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  15. 1.6 49 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

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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