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M 1.6ml

28 km E of Big Pine, California

· 7.5 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 77 kmInyo County 82 kmMono County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 77 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.1431, -117.9657. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 77 km (48 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 82 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 118 km (73 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 125 km (78 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

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

  1. 1.6 2km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  2. 1.5 5km NNE of Wilkerson, CA
  3. 1.6 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.5 57km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  5. 1.5 3km ESE of Bishop, CA
  6. 2.0 8km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
  7. 1.9 6km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 3.0 6km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  9. 2.2 5km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 2.2 4km ENE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  11. 3.8 6km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  12. 2.1 4km SE of Independence, CA
  13. 2.0 4km NNE of Big Pine, CA
  14. 1.9 4km NE of Big Pine, CA
  15. 1.9 4km NE of Big Pine, 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 57,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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