Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.7ml
16km S of Searles Valley, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 7.7 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 104 km N
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1790 days ago
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 310 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 50,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 35,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.1× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.7 about 310 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 35.6258, -117.4303. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 104 km (65 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 122 km (76 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| San Bernardino County, CA | 142 km (88 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near San Bernardino County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
58 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.3 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 22km S of Trona, CA
- 1.8 11km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 21km NNE of Trona, CA
- 2.2 23km N of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.8 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.3 14km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.5 11km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.0 12km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 9km N of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.1 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.2 19km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.2 14km NE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.4 14km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 20km NNE of Inyokern, 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 7.1 on 2019-07-06 — it released about 4,400,000 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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