Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.0ml
8km WNW of Little Lake, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 29 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Tulare County, 77 km WNW
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2635 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 35.9680, -117.9822. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulare County, CA | 77 km (48 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Inyo County, CA | 84 km (52 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 97 km (60 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
42 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.0 21km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.5 21km ENE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.6 15km SE of Olancha, CA
- 1.6 15km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.5 13km SE of Olancha, CA
- 1.9 19km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.5 18km ENE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.2 19km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.5 14km SE of Olancha, CA
- 1.5 20km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.7 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.7 21km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 18km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 21km ESE of Little Lake, 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 45,000,000 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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