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M 1.8ml

16km SE of Arvin, CA

· 6.5 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 25 kmVentura County 94 kmLos Angeles County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 25 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 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 17 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 5.8 900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 640,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 57× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 35.1235, -118.6847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 25 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 94 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 110 km (68 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Kings County, CA 147 km (91 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 27 km SSE of Squirrel Mountain Valley, California
  2. 2.0 1 km NW of Keene, California
  3. 2.4 1 km NW of Keene, California
  4. 1.5 6 km SSW of Mojave, California
  5. 1.5 5 km NW of Lake of the Woods, California
  6. 1.9 11km SE of Tehachapi, CA
  7. 1.6 5km NE of Lebec, CA
  8. 1.7 21km ENE of Arvin, CA
  9. 2.1 24km NE of Lamont, CA
  10. 1.6 14km W of Mojave, CA
  11. 2.2 17km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  12. 2.6 27km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  13. 1.9 18km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  14. 1.7 10km NE of Grapevine, CA
  15. 1.5 8km N of Mojave, 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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