Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.5ml
23km NE of Oildale, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 7.5 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Kern County, 27 km SSE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2581 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 35.5710, -118.8498. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kern County, CA | 27 km (17 mi) | NNW of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Tulare County, CA | 73 km (46 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Kings County, CA | 103 km (64 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Kings County |
| Santa Barbara County, CA | 158 km (98 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
50 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 20km N of Tehachapi, CA
- 1.6 13km SE of Bodfish, CA
- 2.0 3km SW of Bodfish, CA
- 1.7 23km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
- 1.6 5km ESE of Bodfish, CA
- 1.9 17km ESE of Bodfish, CA
- 2.0 22km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
- 2.2 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
- 2.5 23km NE of Arvin, CA
- 1.5 17km ESE of Bodfish, CA
- 1.7 25km SSW of Bodfish, CA
- 3.2 2km NNE of Oildale, CA
- 1.6 13km SE of Bodfish, CA
- 1.9 6km WSW of Shafter, CA
- 2.4 7km WSW of Shafter, 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 110,000 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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