Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.9ml
16km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.9 (ml)
- Depth
- 12 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 103 km N
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2640 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 35.6403, -117.4797. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 103 km (64 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 118 km (73 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Tulare County, CA | 134 km (83 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| San Bernardino County, CA | 147 km (91 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
57 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.9 22km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.8 16km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 4km NNE of Trona, CA
- 1.8 20km S of Trona, CA
- 1.9 15km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.4 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 19km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 19km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.1 22km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.4 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 3.0 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.0 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 22km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.9 19km W of Searles Valley, 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 72,000,000 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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