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M 2.4ml

10km WSW of Lone Pine, CA

· 8.6 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Tulare County, 65 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1957 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 130 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 80,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 36.5410, -118.1687. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 65 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 68 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 16km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  2. 2.0 18km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  3. 1.6 9km S of Olancha, CA
  4. 1.6 9km SSW of Olancha, CA
  5. 1.7 17km NNE of Independence, CA
  6. 1.8 17km NNE of Independence, CA
  7. 1.8 16km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  8. 1.9 16km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  9. 2.7 14km ESE of Olancha, CA
  10. 2.3 8km NNE of Olancha, CA
  11. 2.0 19km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  12. 2.0 15km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  13. 1.5 12km SE of Olancha, CA
  14. 1.9 12km SE of Olancha, CA
  15. 2.9 12km SE 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 5.8 on 2020-06-24 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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