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M 3.0ml

24km NNW of Tehachapi, CA

· 3.6 km deep · released about 1,000 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Kern County, 20 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2078 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,000 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,000 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 35.3390, -118.5077. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 20 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Ventura County, CA 123 km (76 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kings County, CA 144 km (89 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings 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. 1.6 5km S of Mojave, CA
  2. 1.8 23km ENE of Arvin, CA
  3. 1.5 6km SE of Mojave, CA
  4. 1.6 12km W of Mojave, CA
  5. 1.7 11km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  6. 1.8 11km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  7. 2.2 21km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  8. 1.5 21km SSE of Bodfish, CA
  9. 2.0 8km ENE of Oildale, CA
  10. 1.6 6km S of Mojave, CA
  11. 1.9 12km SE of Bodfish, CA
  12. 1.6 14km SE of Lake Isabella, CA
  13. 2.2 21km NNE of Arvin, CA
  14. 1.9 23km NNW of Tehachapi, CA
  15. 1.8 32km ESE of Lake Isabella, 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.

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