Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.7ml
9km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 2.4 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 68 km NE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1843 days ago
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 330 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 46,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 33,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.9× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.7 about 330 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 36.0740, -117.8548. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 68 km (42 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Tulare County, CA | 85 km (53 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Kern County, CA | 113 km (70 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
42 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.9 15km SE of Olancha, CA
- 2.3 6km NE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.7 15km SE of Olancha, CA
- 1.5 12km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.6 7km ENE of Coso Junction, 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
- 1.6 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 20km N of Trona, CA
- 1.7 32km NNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 16km W of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 18km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 12km NE of Coso Junction, CA
- 2.0 17km W 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 4,100,000 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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