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M 1.6ml

5 km ESE of Rosedale, CA

· 23 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 33 kmTulare County 99 kmKings County 102 kmVentura County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 33 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 902 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 35.3733, -119.0878. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 33 km (20 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 99 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Ventura County, CA 113 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 26km SSW of Bodfish, CA
  2. 1.9 11km NE of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  3. 1.9 24km SW of Bodfish, CA
  4. 2.3 24km SW of Bodfish, CA
  5. 1.9 14km SW of Arvin, CA
  6. 2.3 13km W of Grapevine, CA
  7. 1.9 19km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  8. 2.0 18km ESE of Maricopa, CA
  9. 1.8 16km NW of Grapevine, CA
  10. 2.3 7km WNW of Grapevine, CA
  11. 3.6 10km W of Grapevine, CA
  12. 2.1 6km N of Taft, CA
  13. 1.6 7km NNW of Lamont, CA
  14. 2.0 13 km SSW of Rosedale, CA
  15. 2.9 13km SSW of Rosedale, 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 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 68,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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