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M 1.6ml

25km NNE of Kernville, CA

· 2.6 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 53 kmKern County 78 kmInyo County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 53 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3153 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 8.4 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× 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 8.4 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 35.9522, -118.2970. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 78 km (48 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Inyo County, CA 105 km (65 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

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

  1. 1.7 32km W of Olancha, CA
  2. 1.6 7km E of Coso Junction, CA
  3. 1.8 7km WNW of Little Lake, CA
  4. 1.6 10km ESE of Kernville, CA
  5. 1.7 10km ESE of Kernville, CA
  6. 1.6 8km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 1.6 11km S of Olancha, CA
  8. 1.6 16km E of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 1.6 7km SSW of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 2.5 7km SSW of Coso Junction, CA
  11. 2.0 7km SSW of Coso Junction, CA
  12. 1.7 28km W of Coso Junction, CA
  13. 1.5 9km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  14. 1.8 24km WNW of Inyokern, CA
  15. 1.7 9km ENE 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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