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M 3.2ml

5km WNW of Coso Junction, CA

· 2.9 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 72 kmInyo County 77 kmKern County 104 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
2.9 km below the surface
Felt
157 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Tulare County, 72 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2837 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 157 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.2× more

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 36.0675, -118.0000. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 77 km (48 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Kern County, CA 104 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 8km NW of Little Lake, CA
  2. 2.6 8km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  3. 1.5 22km W of Inyokern, CA
  4. 1.9 15km SSW of Olancha, CA
  5. 1.6 16km NNE of Kernville, CA
  6. 1.6 27km W of Olancha, CA
  7. 2.2 26km W of Olancha, CA
  8. 2.2 27km W of Olancha, CA
  9. 2.1 8km WNW of Little Lake, CA
  10. 1.8 18km N of Olancha, CA
  11. 2.4 20km ENE of Little Lake, CA
  12. 1.6 21km ENE of Little Lake, CA
  13. 2.3 21km ENE of Little Lake, CA
  14. 1.7 13km NE of Little Lake, CA
  15. 1.6 8km ENE of Coso Junction, 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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