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M 2.7ml

12km WSW of Searles Valley, CA

· 10.0 km deep · released about 290 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 94 kmKern County 117 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
10.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Inyo County, 94 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1866 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 290 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 51,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 36,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 290 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 35.7245, -117.5280. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 94 km (58 mi) S of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Kern County, CA 117 km (72 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 126 km (78 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

59 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 9km E of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 1.9 18km E of Little Lake, CA
  3. 1.6 21km E of Little Lake, CA
  4. 1.6 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
  5. 1.5 17km ESE of Little Lake, CA
  6. 2.3 16km W of Searles Valley, CA
  7. 1.9 12km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
  8. 1.8 19km W of Searles Valley, CA
  9. 2.0 18km ENE of Little Lake, CA
  10. 1.6 23km N of Ridgecrest, CA
  11. 1.6 20km S of Trona, CA
  12. 1.7 8km E of Ridgecrest, CA
  13. 2.0 17km NNW of Searles Valley, CA
  14. 1.8 17km E of Little Lake, CA
  15. 2.2 18km 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 4,600,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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