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M 3.0ml

5km WNW of Arvin, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 890 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 19 kmVentura County 99 kmTulare County 112 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
25 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Kern County, 19 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2806 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 25 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 890 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 890 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 35.2267, -118.8758. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 19 km (12 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 99 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Tulare County, CA 112 km (69 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 127 km (79 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Los Angeles County, CA 128 km (79 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 131 km (81 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 22km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  2. 3.3 22km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  3. 1.8 24km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  4. 2.6 16km NW of Grapevine, CA
  5. 1.7 16km NW of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  6. 2.2 16km NW of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  7. 1.5 20km ENE of Arvin, CA
  8. 2.2 3km NW of Frazier Park, CA
  9. 1.9 20km ENE of Arvin, CA
  10. 1.7 24km S of Bodfish, CA
  11. 1.6 24km ENE of Arvin, CA
  12. 2.2 16km NW of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  13. 2.4 23km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  14. 1.7 22km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  15. 1.5 10km SE of Maricopa, 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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