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M 1.9ml

8km SW of Little Lake, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 81 kmInyo County 91 kmKern County 91 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 81 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2644 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 35.8920, -117.9795. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 81 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 91 km (56 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Kern County, CA 91 km (57 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

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

  1. 3.0 6km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
  2. 3.2 12km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  3. 3.0 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  4. 3.0 11km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  5. 3.9 13km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  6. 2.8 12km W of Searles Valley, CA
  7. 3.6 12 km ENE of Ridgecrest, California
  8. 3.2 15km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  9. 3.3 12km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  10. 3.4 14km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
  11. 3.5 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  12. 4.1 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA
  13. 3.8 15km NE of Ridgecrest, CA
  14. 3.1 13km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
  15. 3.7 12km SW 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.

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