QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 5.8mw

18km SSE of Lone Pine, CA

· 4.7 km deep · released about 7.6 kilotons of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 53 kmTulare County 76 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 5.8 (mw)
Depth
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
8278 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity VII (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Inyo County, 53 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 280 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 8278 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 89× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 45× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.8 about 7.6 kilotons of TNT
  5. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 1.4× more
  6. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16,000× more

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 36.4468, -117.9752. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 53 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  2. 1.8 19km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  3. 2.0 15 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  4. 2.2 17km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  5. 1.8 16km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  6. 1.8 19km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  7. 2.2 15km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  8. 2.2 19km NNE of Olancha, CA
  9. 1.7 14km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  10. 2.1 14km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  11. 1.7 14km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  12. 1.7 19 km NNE of Olancha, CA
  13. 1.6 17 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  14. 1.6 13 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  15. 1.7 18km SSE of Lone Pine, 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 4.7 on 2020-06-23.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.