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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.5ml

15 km NE of Big Pine, California

· 3.8 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 74 kmMono County 98 kmInyo County 101 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
3.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 74 km NE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 223 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 5.6 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 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 37.2536, -118.1494. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 74 km (46 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Inyo County, CA 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 25 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 2.4 24 km SSW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 2.3 10 km S of Big Pine, CA
  4. 1.6 10 km W of Wilkerson, CA
  5. 2.2 16 km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  6. 2.0 17 km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  7. 2.6 17 km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  8. 2.4 9 km NE of Big Pine, CA
  9. 2.4 2 km SSE of Wilkerson, CA
  10. 1.5 14 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  11. 1.5 9 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA
  12. 1.6 50 km E of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.5 3 km N of West Bishop, CA
  14. 1.8 41 km E of Big Pine, California
  15. 1.6 13 km SSW of West Bishop, 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 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 78,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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