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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

7 km SE of Big Pine, California

· 0.0 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 91 kmInyo County 96 kmMono County 106 kmTulare County 110 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 91 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2036 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 37.1159, -118.2281. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 91 km (56 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 96 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 110 km (69 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 17km NNE of Independence, CA
  2. 1.8 17km NNE of Independence, CA
  3. 2.4 19km WSW of Wilkerson, CA
  4. 2.2 2km SSE of Round Valley, CA
  5. 1.6 20 km S of Dyer, Nevada
  6. 1.5 3km SSE of Bishop, CA
  7. 1.9 1km SSE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  8. 2.3 10km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
  9. 1.6 0km ENE of Bishop, CA
  10. 1.9 23 km S of Dyer, Nevada
  11. 2.1 6km ESE of Round Valley, CA
  12. 2.1 7km E of Round Valley, CA
  13. 2.0 8km WSW of West Bishop, CA
  14. 1.6 2km ENE of Round Valley, CA
  15. 1.6 2km SSE of Bishop, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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