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M 1.7ml

33 km N of Benton, California

· 6.9 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 41 kmMineral County 44 kmEsmeralda County 85 kmLyon County 117 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mono County, 41 km SW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 174 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 38.1246, -118.4922. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 41 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 44 km (27 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 85 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 117 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 127 km (79 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 130 km (81 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Douglas 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. 2.3 29 km ENE of Benton, California
  2. 1.6 6 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  3. 1.8 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  4. 2.5 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  5. 2.0 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  6. 2.6 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  8. 1.7 36 km N of Benton, California
  9. 1.6 13 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  10. 1.8 37 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.6 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  12. 2.1 33 km N of Benton, California
  13. 2.0 33 km N of Benton, California
  14. 1.7 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  15. 2.6 25 km SSW 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 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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