24km N of Ridgecrest, CA

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 35.8360, -117.6700. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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. 2.0 12km WSW of Searles Valley, CA 08:50 UTC
2. 1.5 20km S of Trona, CA 08:40 UTC
3. 1.7 15km WSW of Searles Valley, CA 08:35 UTC
4. 1.9 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA 08:25 UTC
5. 2.3 12km WSW of Searles Valley, CA 08:19 UTC
6. 2.2 20km S of Trona, CA 08:14 UTC
7. 1.7 13km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA 08:12 UTC
8. 1.9 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA 08:03 UTC
9. 2.8 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA 08:03 UTC
10. 1.9 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA 07:47 UTC
11. 1.8 25km S of Trona, CA 07:43 UTC
12. 2.2 10km NE of Coso Junction, CA 07:41 UTC
13. 1.6 19km S of Trona, CA 07:34 UTC
14. 1.7 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA 07:26 UTC
15. 1.8 14km NE of Ridgecrest, CA 07:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 17:59 UTC. 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 7,900,000 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

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.