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M 1.6ml

25km SW of Little Lake, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 74 kmTulare County 80 kmInyo County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 74 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3258 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 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 35.7732, -118.0952. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 80 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 17km E of Lake Isabella, CA
  2. 2.0 12km NE of Little Lake, CA
  3. 1.6 6km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  4. 2.9 12km NE of Little Lake, CA
  5. 2.5 17km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  6. 1.8 4km N of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 1.8 17km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  8. 1.6 6km WNW of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 2.9 5km WNW of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 1.6 6km ESE of Wofford Heights, CA
  11. 3.0 6km ESE of Wofford Heights, CA
  12. 2.4 6km ESE of Wofford Heights, CA
  13. 2.3 6km NNE of Little Lake, CA
  14. 2.8 12km SE of Little Lake, CA
  15. 2.0 9km ESE of Coso Junction, 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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