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M 2.8ml

67 km ENE of Independence, California

· 16 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Inyo County, 55 km S
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1510 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 37.0500, -117.5104. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 55 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Nye County, NV 138 km (86 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Tulare County, CA 146 km (90 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 58 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.7 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  3. 1.8 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.7 34 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 2.5 34km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  6. 1.6 48 km ENE of Independence, California
  7. 1.5 40 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  8. 1.5 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  9. 1.6 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.8 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  11. 1.8 37 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  12. 1.8 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  13. 1.6 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  14. 1.5 38 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada
  15. 1.5 36 km SSE of Goldfield, Nevada

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.

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