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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

33 km N of Benton, California

· 8.8 km deep · released about 1,000 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 42 kmMineral County 45 kmEsmeralda County 83 kmLyon County 118 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 42 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 27 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,000 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,000 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 38.1187, -118.4751. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 45 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 83 km (52 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Lyon County, NV 118 km (74 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Alpine County, CA 128 km (80 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alpine County
Douglas County, NV 132 km (82 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

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

  1. 1.9 20 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  2. 2.3 29 km ENE of Benton, California
  3. 1.6 6 km SW of Mina, Nevada
  4. 1.8 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  5. 2.5 28 km SE of Bodie, CA
  6. 2.0 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  7. 2.6 30 km SSE of Mina, Nevada
  8. 1.7 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  9. 1.7 36 km N of Benton, California
  10. 1.6 13 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  11. 1.8 37 km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.6 25 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
  13. 2.1 33 km N of Benton, California
  14. 2.0 33 km N of Benton, California
  15. 1.7 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 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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