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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

27 km NNW of Benton, California

· 9.4 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 27 kmMineral County 56 kmEsmeralda County 91 kmTuolumne County 118 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mono County, 27 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1810 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 38.0401, -118.6159. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 27 km (17 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 91 km (57 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tuolumne County, CA 118 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Lyon County, NV 120 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 122 km (76 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  2. 1.5 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  3. 1.6 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  4. 1.8 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.3 9 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 1.5 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  7. 1.7 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  8. 2.5 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  9. 1.8 24 km S of Mina, Nevada
  10. 1.8 32 km ENE of Mono City, California
  11. 1.5 26 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.8 13km SSE of Bodie, CA
  13. 1.6 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  14. 2.2 39km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  15. 2.4 39km NNE of Toms Place, 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 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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