Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.7ml
15km NW of Coso Junction, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 1.2 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Tulare County, 65 km W
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 36.1355, -118.0685. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulare County, CA | 65 km (40 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Inyo County, CA | 76 km (47 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Kern County, CA | 106 km (66 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.
- 3.5 12km NE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.7 20km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.5 21km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 2.3 20km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 20km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.9 20km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 23km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 15km ESE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 16km SE of Little Lake, CA
- 1.6 11km S of Olancha, CA
- 1.9 10km NE of Coso Junction, CA
- 1.5 8km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
- 2.7 20km E of Little Lake, CA
- 1.8 15km WSW of Olancha, CA
- 1.6 16km WSW of Olancha, 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 5.5 on 2019-07-06 — it released about 500,000 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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