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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

19km NE of Kernville, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 57 kmKern County 72 kmInyo County 110 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Tulare County, 57 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1969 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 35.8927, -118.3052. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 57 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 72 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Inyo County, CA 110 km (68 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 1.8 12km SW of Olancha, CA
  3. 1.7 20km NE of Kernville, CA
  4. 3.1 11km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  5. 2.9 11km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  6. 2.5 11km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 2.0 9km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  8. 1.7 14km NE of Little Lake, CA
  9. 1.7 11km N of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 1.7 12km SE of Bodfish, CA
  11. 1.6 24km SSW of Little Lake, CA
  12. 2.1 17km SW of Olancha, CA
  13. 2.2 17km SW of Olancha, CA
  14. 2.0 6km NNW of Little Lake, CA
  15. 1.8 11km 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2019-07-18 — it released about 9,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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