Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.6ml
12km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 8.1 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 102 km N
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2628 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 9 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 9 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 35.6548, -117.5468. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 102 km (63 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 112 km (70 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Tulare County, CA | 128 km (80 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
53 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.3 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.1 19km W of Johannesburg, CA
- 2.5 18km S of Trona, CA
- 3.6 19km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 1.6 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 18km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 23km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.5 13km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 17km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.5 19km S of Trona, CA
- 1.8 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.0 22km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.1 22km ESE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.3 21km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 20km 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 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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