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M 1.5ml

18km NNE of Coso Junction, CA

· 2.2 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 58 km NE
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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 36.1818, -117.8480. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 84 km (52 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 122 km (76 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kern 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 18km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 1.6 32km NNE of Kernville, CA
  3. 1.6 11km S of Little Lake, CA
  4. 1.9 11km S of Little Lake, CA
  5. 1.6 11km S of Little Lake, CA
  6. 1.9 32km NNE of Kernville, CA
  7. 2.6 18km NE of Olancha, CA
  8. 1.6 9km SW of Little Lake, CA
  9. 1.7 12km NE of Little Lake, CA
  10. 1.7 27km NNE of Kernville, CA
  11. 2.0 22km E of Little Lake, CA
  12. 1.6 16km ESE of Lone Pine, CA
  13. 2.0 22km E of Coso Junction, CA
  14. 1.7 16km E of Coso Junction, CA
  15. 1.7 21km NE of Kernville, 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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