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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

33km NNE of Simmler, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 50 kmSan Luis Obispo County 59 kmKern County 108 kmTulare County 119 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 50 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1704 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 35.6267, -119.8678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kern County, CA 108 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 119 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
San Benito County, CA 155 km (96 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Benito County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 10km SW of Kettleman City, CA
  2. 2.1 9km SSW of Kettleman City, CA
  3. 2.1 9km SSW of Kettleman City, CA
  4. 1.6 2km W of Avenal, CA
  5. 2.1 3km WSW of Avenal, CA
  6. 1.7 26km E of Cholame, CA
  7. 2.1 26km S of Kettleman City, CA
  8. 1.7 12km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  9. 1.8 29km ESE of Cholame, CA
  10. 2.8 9km ESE of Kettleman City, CA
  11. 2.1 10km NNW of Cholame, CA
  12. 1.7 5km E of Avenal, CA
  13. 1.8 20km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  14. 1.6 3km WSW of Avenal, CA
  15. 1.9 8km WSW of Shafter, 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 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 33,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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