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M 2.3ml

7km E of Oildale, CA

· 21 km deep · released about 82 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Kern County, 21 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1512 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 82 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 82 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 35.4278, -118.9402. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 21 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 107 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Ventura County, CA 120 km (75 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 141 km (87 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  2. 2.2 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  3. 1.7 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  4. 2.2 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  5. 2.2 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  6. 1.8 10km SSW of Bakersfield, CA
  7. 2.2 15km SSW of Rosedale, CA
  8. 2.2 17km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  9. 1.5 14km NW of Grapevine, CA
  10. 2.0 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  11. 1.6 9km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  12. 1.9 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  13. 3.8 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  14. 1.7 5km SW of Bodfish, CA
  15. 3.7 22km SSW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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