Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.9ml
13 km NW of Benton, California
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.9 (ml)
- Depth
- 7.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mono County, 26 km W
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2057 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
- 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 37.9097, -118.5785. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono County, CA | 26 km (16 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Mineral County, NV | 69 km (43 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Mineral County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 84 km (52 mi) | W of here | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Mariposa County, CA | 123 km (76 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Mariposa County |
| Madera County, CA | 129 km (80 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Madera County |
| Alpine County, CA | 133 km (82 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Alpine County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
34 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.2 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 34 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
- 1.9 35 km NNE of Benton, California
- 2.5 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.5 26km E of Lee Vining, CA
- 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.9 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.7 5km N of Round Valley, CA
- 3.2 17km SE of Bodie, CA
- 1.5 31km SE of Bodie, CA
- 1.7 12km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.9 36 km NNE of Benton, California
- 1.6 36 km N of Benton, California
- 2.1 36 km NNE of Benton, 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 5.2 on 2020-04-11 — it released about 100,000 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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