Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.8ml
8km ESE of Coso Junction, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.8 (ml)
- Depth
- 3.9 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 75 km NE
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2636 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 13 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 810,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 72× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 36.0070, -117.8777. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 75 km (47 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Tulare County, CA | 85 km (53 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Kern County, CA | 106 km (66 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
45 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 3.2 20km E of Coso Junction, CA
- 3.1 16km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 2.0 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 13km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.5 14km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 3.0 18km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 14km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 1.9 19km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 13km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.7 15km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 3.5 16km SE of Olancha, CA
- 1.7 13km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.8 11km NE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 4.4 14km NNE of Coso Junction, 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 100,000,000 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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