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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

26 km SW of Big Pine, California

· 0.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 90 kmFresno County 105 kmMono County 106 kmInyo County 111 kmMadera County 112 kmEsmeralda County 116 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 90 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2544 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. 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 37.0108, -118.5146. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 90 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Mono County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 111 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Madera County, CA 112 km (69 mi) E of here earthquakes near Madera County
Esmeralda County, NV 116 km (72 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  2. 1.6 11km SW of West Bishop, CA
  3. 1.5 9km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  4. 1.7 14km SW of West Bishop, CA
  5. 1.8 7km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  6. 1.8 8km S of Wilkerson, CA
  7. 2.6 9km WNW of Round Valley, CA
  8. 1.9 1km NNE of Wilkerson, CA
  9. 1.7 3km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  10. 1.5 4km NW of West Bishop, CA
  11. 2.0 11km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
  12. 1.8 8km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
  13. 1.7 10km W of Round Valley, CA
  14. 1.9 1km S of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.6 7km NW of West 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

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