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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.6ml

28 km ENE of Lee Vining, California

· 7.4 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 12 kmMineral County 66 kmTuolumne County 102 kmEsmeralda County 106 kmMariposa County 109 kmAlpine County 110 kmLyon County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 12 km SSW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2294 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 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 38.0115, -118.8058. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 12 km (8 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 102 km (63 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mariposa County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Alpine County, CA 110 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.6 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.9 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  4. 1.8 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.0 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 2.9 25km SE of Bodie, CA
  7. 2.5 26km SE of Bodie, CA
  8. 2.7 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  9. 1.5 35 km E of Mono City, California
  10. 1.6 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  11. 2.4 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  12. 2.1 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.6 28km SE of Bodie, CA
  14. 2.2 29km SE of Bodie, CA
  15. 1.6 29km SE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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