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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

10km SW of Pixley, CA

· 7.5 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 44 kmTulare County 64 kmKern County 85 kmFresno County 98 kmSan Luis Obispo County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 44 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3387 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 13 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 840,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 75× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 35.9067, -119.3737. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 44 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Tulare County, CA 64 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Fresno County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 113 km (70 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 20km ESE of Kettleman City, CA
  2. 1.9 19km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  3. 1.8 25km WSW of Alpaugh, CA
  4. 1.9 24km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  5. 1.9 10km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  6. 1.9 7km WSW of Shafter, CA
  7. 2.4 2km SW of Home Garden, CA
  8. 1.8 6km ENE of Kettleman City, CA
  9. 1.9 12km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  10. 1.8 7km ENE of Kettleman City, CA
  11. 1.8 24km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  12. 1.8 23km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  13. 2.0 21km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  14. 1.9 21km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  15. 2.6 21km SSE of Kettleman City, 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 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 48,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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