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M 1.5ml

59 km ENE of Independence, California

· 0.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 49 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 991 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 36.9831, -117.5703. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 49 km (31 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 89 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 137 km (85 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Nye County, NV 147 km (91 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County
Mono County, CA 155 km (96 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 43 km ENE of Independence, California
  2. 2.0 64 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  3. 2.1 61 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  4. 1.7 64 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  5. 1.7 58 km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  6. 1.9 64 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  7. 1.5 64 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 1.6 33 km NE of Independence, California
  9. 1.8 56 km S of Goldfield, Nevada
  10. 1.6 59 km NNE of Keeler, California
  11. 1.6 57 km NNE of Keeler, California
  12. 1.8 51 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 1.6 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  14. 1.9 39 km ENE of Independence, California
  15. 1.6 33 km ESE of Big Pine, California

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 2022-01-06 — it released about 75,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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