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M 1.6ml

9km N of Lamont, CA

· 18 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 18 kmTulare County 100 kmVentura County 111 kmKings County 114 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 18 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3244 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 9 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 9 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 35.3387, -118.9315. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 100 km (62 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Ventura County, CA 111 km (69 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kings County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Santa Barbara County, CA 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 2.0 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  2. 1.6 15km WNW of Grapevine, CA
  3. 1.6 15km WNW of Grapevine, CA
  4. 1.5 20km N of Tehachapi, CA
  5. 2.5 21km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  6. 1.7 7km SW of Shafter, CA
  7. 2.2 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  8. 2.1 24km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  9. 2.5 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  10. 1.6 10km ESE of Maricopa, CA
  11. 2.2 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  12. 1.7 20km S of Bodfish, CA
  13. 2.2 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  14. 2.2 23km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  15. 1.8 10km SSW of Bakersfield, 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 68,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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