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M 1.6ml

57 km NNE of Keeler, California

· 1.4 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
1.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 42 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2005 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 36.9267, -117.5439. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 95 km (59 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 135 km (84 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Nye County, NV 150 km (93 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Mono County, CA 161 km (100 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

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

  1. 2.8 36km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  2. 1.5 42 km NW of Beatty, Nevada
  3. 2.8 67 km ENE of Independence, California
  4. 1.8 50 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.7 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.7 36km NE of Independence, CA
  7. 1.7 50 km E of Big Pine, California
  8. 2.0 61 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 1.6 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  10. 2.0 53 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  11. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  12. 2.1 51 km ENE of Independence, California
  13. 1.5 61 km NNE of Keeler, California
  14. 2.6 33km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  15. 1.6 43 km ESE of Big Pine, 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 48,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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