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M 2.4ml

12km WNW of Searles Valley, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 87 kmKern County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 87 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2630 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 130 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 35.7893, -117.5362. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 87 km (54 mi) S of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Kern County, CA 119 km (74 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 122 km (76 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

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

  1. 1.6 22km N of Ridgecrest, CA
  2. 1.6 12km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
  3. 1.8 26km N of Searles Valley, CA
  4. 2.3 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  5. 1.7 17km E of Little Lake, CA
  6. 2.1 14km W of Searles Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 13km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 16km E of Little Lake, CA
  9. 2.4 16km E of Little Lake, CA
  10. 2.1 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
  11. 2.2 24km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA
  12. 1.6 16km E of Little Lake, CA
  13. 1.7 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
  14. 2.5 26km N of Searles Valley, CA
  15. 2.2 18km S 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 10,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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