13km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 72,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,200× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,300× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.3 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.9× 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 35.6763, -117.5487. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.4 17km E of Little Lake, CA 07:20 UTC
2. 2.3 16km E of Little Lake, CA 07:20 UTC
3. 2.0 18km S of Trona, CA 07:19 UTC
4. 2.4 17km ESE of Little Lake, CA 07:19 UTC
5. 2.3 21km S of Trona, CA 07:18 UTC
6. 2.3 23km ESE of Little Lake, CA 07:18 UTC
7. 2.1 15km WSW of Searles Valley, CA 07:18 UTC
8. 2.2 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA 07:17 UTC
9. 2.5 14km SSW of Searles Valley, CA 07:17 UTC
10. 2.5 23km N of Ridgecrest, CA 07:16 UTC
11. 3.8 14km E of Little Lake, CA 07:16 UTC
12. 2.5 19km ESE of Little Lake, CA 07:15 UTC
13. 3.3 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA 07:15 UTC
14. 2.4 18km ESE of Little Lake, CA 07:15 UTC
15. 2.2 14km SSW of Searles Valley, CA 07:14 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:39 UTC. 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 7.1 on 2019-07-06 — it released about 290,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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