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M 1.8ml

10km SSW of Bakersfield, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 31 kmVentura County 101 kmTulare County 110 kmKings County 113 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 31 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2984 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 35.2655, -119.0608. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 31 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 101 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Tulare County, CA 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 113 km (70 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Santa Barbara County, CA 120 km (75 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles County, CA 140 km (87 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 22km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  2. 1.6 12km WNW of Tehachapi, CA
  3. 1.6 10km E of Taft, CA
  4. 1.7 20km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  5. 1.6 9km W of Tehachapi, CA
  6. 1.5 25km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  7. 2.4 16km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  8. 1.9 9km WSW of Arvin, CA
  9. 2.1 21km E of Maricopa, CA
  10. 1.6 24km ENE of Arvin, CA
  11. 1.5 20km ENE of Arvin, CA
  12. 2.4 24km NE of Lamont, CA
  13. 2.0 13km E of Arvin, CA
  14. 1.6 15km NNE of Lamont, CA
  15. 1.6 2km S of Lamont, 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 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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