Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.4ml
17km W of Searles Valley, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.4 (ml)
- Depth
- 3.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 89 km N
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2534 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 100,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.1× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 35.7782, -117.5890. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 89 km (55 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 114 km (71 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Tulare County, CA | 118 km (74 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
59 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 16km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.3 10km WSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.5 13km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.7 23km WNW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 18km S of Trona, CA
- 1.8 12km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 1.6 15km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.7 14km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 2.2 14km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.8 12km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA
- 2.1 13km SW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.6 9km E of Ridgecrest, CA
- 1.5 16km SSW of Searles Valley, CA
- 1.9 9km NE of Coso Junction, 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 13,000,000 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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