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M 3.5ml

29km ESE of Kernville, CA

· 9.1 km deep · released about 2.4 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
24 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Kern County, 61 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3258 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 24 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.1× 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 35.6225, -118.1495. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 88 km (55 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 124 km (77 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 25km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  2. 1.6 25km W of Johannesburg, CA
  3. 1.7 12km E of Lake Isabella, CA
  4. 1.6 5km N of Kernville, CA
  5. 2.2 16km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  6. 1.6 21km S of Bodfish, CA
  7. 1.7 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  8. 2.0 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  9. 2.0 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  10. 2.5 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  11. 1.8 25km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  12. 1.8 26km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  13. 1.6 25km SW of Little Lake, CA
  14. 1.5 17km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  15. 1.9 17km SSE of Bodfish, 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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