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M 2.0ml

35km NW of Fort Irwin, CA

· 7.6 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 100 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2896 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 35.4918, -116.9553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 100 km (62 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Inyo County, CA 126 km (78 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.0 11km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
  2. 3.6 9km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
  3. 2.3 40km ESE of Trona, CA
  4. 2.0 31km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  5. 2.1 36km W of Tecopa, CA
  6. 1.8 31km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  7. 1.6 30km SW of Tecopa, CA
  8. 2.3 29km SW of Tecopa, CA
  9. 2.3 37km NNW of Fort Irwin, CA
  10. 2.0 37km NNW of Fort Irwin, CA
  11. 1.6 37km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  12. 2.2 34km WSW of Tecopa, CA
  13. 1.5 49km WSW of Shoshone, CA
  14. 2.4 41km E of Johannesburg, CA
  15. 1.6 28km E of Trona, 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 4.1 on 2017-08-22 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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