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M 1.5ml

29 km ESE of Big Pine, California

· 8.1 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 78 kmEsmeralda County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 78 km SE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2234 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 37.1022, -117.9612. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 78 km (48 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 81 km (50 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 122 km (76 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

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

  1. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  2. 2.1 7km SE of Bishop, CA
  3. 1.5 34 km ENE of Independence, California
  4. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  5. 1.8 7km NE of Wilkerson, CA
  6. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  7. 1.8 19km E of Big Pine, CA
  8. 2.1 7 km SE of Big Pine, California
  9. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 2.4 15km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  11. 3.4 14km NE of Big Pine, CA
  12. 1.9 7km E of Wilkerson, CA
  13. 1.8 Central California
  14. 3.7 6km ESE of Wilkerson, CA
  15. 1.6 57 km NNE of Keeler, California

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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