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M 3.0ml

5km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA

· 0.0 km deep · released about 890 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 104 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2592 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 890 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 6.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 890 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 35.6123, -117.6240. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 104 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Inyo County, CA 107 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 125 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  2. 2.2 13km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  3. 1.9 13km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
  4. 2.0 8km NE of Ridgecrest, CA
  5. 2.3 15km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
  6. 2.6 15km NE of Ridgecrest, CA
  7. 2.4 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  8. 1.8 16km N of Ridgecrest, CA
  9. 1.9 8km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  10. 1.9 8km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  11. 3.0 7km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA
  12. 2.0 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  13. 2.3 11km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  14. 1.9 8km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  15. 2.6 12km SW of Searles Valley, 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 6.4 on 2019-07-04 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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