Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.6ml
21km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 10 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 86 km NNE
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2639 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 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 35.8133, -117.6345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 86 km (53 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 112 km (69 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Tulare County, CA | 113 km (70 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
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.
- 3.6 19km S of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 24km NW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 17km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 11km NE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.6 18km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 23km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.6 10km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.6 10km S of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.5 16km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 16km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 22km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 15km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 23km ENE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.2 17km SSW 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 150,000,000 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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