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M 2.0ml

12km NNE of Pine Mountain Club, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 56 kmVentura County 65 kmSanta Barbara County 97 kmLos Angeles County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 56 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2112 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 36 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 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 34.9450, -119.1008. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 65 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles County, CA 113 km (70 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 16km SW of Frazier Park, CA
  2. 2.2 19km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  3. 1.6 16km NNW of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  4. 2.1 15km ESE of Arvin, CA
  5. 3.1 10km SSW of Rosedale, CA
  6. 2.0 24km ENE of Maricopa, CA
  7. 1.8 20km N of Fillmore, CA
  8. 1.6 3km NW of Frazier Park, CA
  9. 1.6 15km ENE of Ojai, CA
  10. 1.8 17km SE of Buttonwillow, CA
  11. 1.6 18km SW of Lamont, CA
  12. 1.6 2km SE of Frazier Park, CA
  13. 2.0 14km NNE of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  14. 1.6 5km SE of Frazier Park, CA
  15. 1.6 19km WNW of Grapevine, 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 4.1 on 2016-03-12 — it released about 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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