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M 3.6ml

29km ENE of Porterville, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 3.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 9 kmKern County 91 kmKings County 99 kmFresno County 106 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 3.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
86 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Tulare County, 9 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3390 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 86 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 51,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6.9× more

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 36.1658, -118.7230. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 9 km (5 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 91 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Kern County
Kings County, CA 99 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Inyo County, CA 126 km (78 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Madera County, CA 148 km (92 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madera County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 19km W of Olancha, CA
  2. 1.5 8km NNW of Kernville, CA
  3. 1.7 13km SE of Woodlake, CA
  4. 1.7 32km NNE of Kernville, CA
  5. 1.5 27km W of Olancha, CA
  6. 1.8 30km W of Olancha, CA
  7. 1.6 16km NNE of Kernville, CA
  8. 1.9 8km NNW of Kernville, CA
  9. 2.1 6km W of Kernville, CA
  10. 1.5 20 km W of Cartago, California
  11. 1.6 16km NNE of Kernville, CA
  12. 1.6 27km W of Olancha, CA
  13. 2.2 26km W of Olancha, CA
  14. 2.2 27km W of Olancha, CA
  15. 2.0 16km WNW of Kernville, 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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