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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

30 km ENE of Lee Vining, California

· 11 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 15 kmMineral County 62 kmTuolumne County 103 kmEsmeralda County 106 kmAlpine County 109 kmMariposa County 111 kmLyon County 115 kmDouglas County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 15 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 339 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 38.0389, -118.7922. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 15 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Tuolumne County, CA 103 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Esmeralda County, NV 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Alpine County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Mariposa County, CA 111 km (69 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

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

  1. 1.6 26 km SW of Walker Lake, Nevada
  2. 1.7 29 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada
  3. 1.6 40 km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  4. 1.7 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  5. 2.4 39 km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  6. 1.9 35 km NNE of Benton, California
  7. 1.9 31 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.6 15 km ESE of Bridgeport, California
  9. 1.9 29 km SE of Bodie, CA
  10. 1.6 28 km WSW of Mina, Nevada
  11. 1.7 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  12. 1.7 33 km N of Benton, California
  13. 1.6 40 km S of Qualeys Camp, NV
  14. 1.5 19 km N of Benton, California
  15. 1.8 19 km SSE of Bodie, 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 1,300,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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