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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

14km ENE of McFarland, CA

· 18 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 55 kmTulare County 62 kmKings County 75 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 55 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2512 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 9.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 35.7378, -119.0980. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 62 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 75 km (46 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 124 km (77 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 19km E of McFarland, CA
  2. 1.5 8km WSW of Shafter, CA
  3. 3.1 10km SSW of Rosedale, CA
  4. 1.5 12km WNW of Wofford Heights, CA
  5. 2.1 6km SW of Woodville, CA
  6. 1.6 12km WNW of Wofford Heights, CA
  7. 2.0 8km ENE of Oildale, CA
  8. 2.1 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
  9. 1.9 13km E of Porterville, CA
  10. 2.3 7km NNW of Delano, CA
  11. 1.9 12km WNW of Wofford Heights, CA
  12. 1.8 7km NNW of Delano, CA
  13. 1.7 12km WNW of Wofford Heights, CA
  14. 1.6 12km WNW of Wofford Heights, CA
  15. 1.5 7km NE of Porterville, 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 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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