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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

54 km NW of Furnace Creek, California

· 14 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 21 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1602 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 36.7439, -117.3363. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 118 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Esmeralda 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. 2.2 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  2. 2.3 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  3. 2.0 57km ENE of Independence, CA
  4. 2.6 57km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  5. 1.5 13km E of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  6. 1.8 39km WSW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  7. 2.6 9km W of Furnace Creek, CA
  8. 2.3 60 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  9. 2.0 59 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  10. 1.8 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  11. 1.7 61 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 1.5 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  13. 1.6 20 km N of Furnace Creek, California
  14. 1.6 60km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  15. 1.6 48 km ENE of Independence, 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 4.7 on 2020-08-19 — it released about 17,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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