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M 3.0ml

27km SSW of Tecopa, CA

· 3.1 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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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
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 85 km S
Nearest mapped fault
Garlock fault, 3 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1566 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 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 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 35.6117, -116.2987. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Clark County, NV 134 km (83 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Inyo County, CA 145 km (90 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 31km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  2. 1.9 9km SE of Tecopa, CA
  3. 2.1 17km ENE of Shoshone, CA
  4. 2.0 31km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  5. 2.1 36km W of Tecopa, CA
  6. 1.8 31km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  7. 1.6 30km SW of Tecopa, CA
  8. 2.3 29km SW of Tecopa, CA
  9. 1.9 25km E of Tecopa, CA
  10. 1.6 37km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  11. 2.1 29km NNE of Baker, CA
  12. 2.2 34km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  13. 1.7 22 km WSW of Tecopa, California
  14. 1.7 17km ENE of Shoshone, CA
  15. 1.9 18km ENE of Shoshone, 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.

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