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M 1.9ml

27 km NNW of Benton, California

· 11 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 31 kmMineral County 53 kmEsmeralda County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 31 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 733 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 38.0580, -118.5771. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 31 km (19 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 53 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 88 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 120 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 129 km (80 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 42 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  2. 2.5 42 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  3. 2.0 12 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 2.1 28 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 2.4 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  6. 1.5 41 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.8 41 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.5 41 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.8 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.7 12 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 2.2 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 1.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 1.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  14. 3.7 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.3 13 km ESE of Hawthorne, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.6 on 2016-12-28 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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