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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

7 km SE of Markleeville, California

· 0.7 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alpine County, 8 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1002 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. 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 38.6503, -119.7178. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alpine County, CA 8 km (5 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 30 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Carson City, NV 56 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Carson City
Lyon County, NV 61 km (38 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lyon County
El Dorado County, CA 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near El Dorado County
Tuolumne County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4 km W of Walker, California
  2. 1.5 6 km NNE of Carter Springs, Nevada
  3. 1.5 4 km ENE of Topaz, California
  4. 2.7 12 km N of Walker, CA
  5. 2.2 3 km ENE of Topaz, California
  6. 1.6 14 km E of Topaz, California
  7. 1.6 9 km S of Carter Springs, Nevada
  8. 2.5 6 km NW of Walker, CA
  9. 1.5 3 km WSW of Coleville, California
  10. 1.9 9 km ESE of Markleeville, California
  11. 2.7 6 km NNW of Walker, CA
  12. 2.1 3 km NNW of Markleeville, CA
  13. 1.6 13 km E of Topaz, California
  14. 2.9 5 km WNW of Walker, CA
  15. 2.5 5 km NNW of Walker, 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 6.0 on 2021-07-08 — it released about 4,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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