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M 1.6ml

38 km ESE of Big Pine, California

· 1.8 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 70 kmEsmeralda County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 70 km SE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2207 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 37.0665, -117.8740. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 70 km (43 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 123 km (77 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 129 km (80 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.7 6km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  4. 2.1 51 km ENE of Independence, California
  5. 2.4 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 61 km NNE of Keeler, California
  7. 2.2 6km ENE of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 2.6 33km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  9. 1.6 43 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  10. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  11. 1.5 34 km ENE of Independence, California
  12. 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  13. 1.8 7km NE of Wilkerson, CA
  14. 1.6 32 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  15. 2.3 56km WNW of Beatty, NV

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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