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M 2.1ml
Earthquake near Woodville, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Woodville in the 24 hours to 4:23 pm PST (00:23 UTC). The last one was M 4.6, 110 km (68 mi) S, at 9:10 pm PDT on 6 August 2024, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 253 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Woodville
This page: a magnitude 2.1 earthquake was recorded 7 km (4 mi) southwest of Woodville, CA, at 2:23 am PDT on 5 May 2021 (09:23 UTC), 26 km deep.
USGS: 6km SW of Woodville, CA
96 km (60 mi) SSE of Fresno, CA · 19 km (12 mi) W of Porterville, CA
- When
- 2:23 am PDT on 5 May 2021 ()
- Where
- 7 km (4 mi) southwest of Woodville, CA · earthquakes near Woodville
- Magnitude
- M 2.1 (ml)
- Depth
- 26 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Tulare County, 46 km ENE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2018 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Woodville, 7 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Tipton, Poplar-Cotton Center, Pixley, Teviston, Matheny, Earlimart.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.0 5 km S of Springville, California · 37 km E of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 36.0450, -119.2393. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulare County, CA | 46 km (29 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Kings County, CA | 52 km (32 mi) | W | earthquakes near Kings County |
| Fresno County, CA | 88 km (55 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Fresno County |
| Kern County, CA | 90 km (56 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Kern County |
| San Luis Obispo County, CA | 131 km (82 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
49 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.4 12 km NNW of Corcoran, CA
- 2.6 3 km W of Home Garden, CA
- 2.0 4 km SE of Delano, CA
- 1.7 7 km NNE of Porterville, CA
- 1.8 14 km S of Stratford, CA
- 1.9 7 km N of Delano, CA
- 2.3 7 km SW of Home Garden, CA
- 2.8 6 km SW of Home Garden, CA
- 2.5 15 km SW of Corcoran, CA
- 2.3 4 km SW of Home Garden, CA
- 2.7 2 km SE of Armona, CA
- 1.8 7 km NNW of Delano, CA
- 2.4 28 km ENE of Porterville, CA
- 1.6 17 km E of Delano, CA
- 1.6 14 km SW of Alpaugh, 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.
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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