Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.6ml
7 km NE of Lee Vining, California
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 0.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Mono County, 19 km ESE
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- 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 38.0022, -119.0609. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono County, CA | 19 km (12 mi) | WNW of here | earthquakes near Mono County |
| Tuolumne County, CA | 79 km (49 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Tuolumne County |
| Mineral County, NV | 80 km (50 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Mineral County |
| Mariposa County, CA | 89 km (55 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Mariposa County |
| Alpine County, CA | 94 km (59 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Alpine County |
| Madera County, CA | 107 km (66 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Madera County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
53 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.8 2km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
- 1.7 20km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
- 2.2 30km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
- 2.4 29km SE of Bodie, CA
- 1.8 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 38km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.5 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 2.6 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.8 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 2.1 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 1.6 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
- 3.0 27km ESE of Bodie, CA
- 2.2 27km ESE of Bodie, 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 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 1,000,000 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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