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M 2.0ml

12km SW of Taft, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Santa Barbara County 74 kmKern County 81 kmVentura County 87 kmSan Luis Obispo County 89 kmKings County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Santa Barbara County, 74 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2760 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 35.0657, -119.5477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Barbara County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Kern County, CA 81 km (50 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 89 km (56 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kings County, CA 115 km (71 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Los Angeles County, CA 152 km (95 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 2.5 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
  2. 2.0 10km W of Grapevine, CA
  3. 1.7 10km WSW of Shafter, CA
  4. 1.6 29km WSW of Maricopa, CA
  5. 1.5 15km NW of Grapevine, CA
  6. 1.9 18km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  7. 2.6 6km SW of Shafter, CA
  8. 2.5 10km SSW of Maricopa, CA
  9. 2.1 11km SSW of Maricopa, CA
  10. 1.9 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
  11. 1.9 15km NNE of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  12. 1.6 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
  13. 1.8 22km ENE of Los Olivos, CA
  14. 2.3 17km NE of Taft, CA
  15. 1.7 3km ENE of Buttonwillow, 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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