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M 1.5ml

47 km ENE of Independence, California

· 0.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 56 km SSE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2232 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 36.9940, -117.7250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 88 km (54 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 144 km (90 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Nye County, NV 155 km (97 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  2. 1.5 34 km ENE of Independence, California
  3. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  4. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  5. 2.3 56km WNW of Beatty, NV
  6. 1.8 19km E of Big Pine, CA
  7. 2.1 7 km SE of Big Pine, California
  8. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 2.4 15km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  10. 3.4 14km NE of Big Pine, CA
  11. 1.5 59 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 1.8 Central California
  13. 1.9 59 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.6 57 km NNE of Keeler, California
  15. 1.7 57km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, 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.

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