Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.0ml
13km SSE of Ridgecrest, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 6.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- 2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
- Nearest
- Kern County, 102 km W
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2617 days ago
This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 35.5078, -117.6247. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kern County, CA | 102 km (63 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Inyo County, CA | 119 km (74 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Tulare County, CA | 131 km (82 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Tulare 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.
- 1.9 25km S of Trona, CA
- 1.7 24km NNE of California City, CA
- 2.0 19km W of Johannesburg, CA
- 2.3 19km W of Johannesburg, CA
- 2.2 19km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.7 18km E of Little Lake, CA
- 2.4 22km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 12km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.1 13km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 16km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.0 12km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.2 23km W of Johannesburg, CA
- 2.0 17km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.0 17km E 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 50,000,000 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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