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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

19km ENE of Maricopa, CA

· 24 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 50 kmVentura County 87 kmSanta Barbara County 100 kmSan Luis Obispo County 115 kmKings County 117 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 50 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1700 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 8.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 35.1418, -119.2228. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 50 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 100 km (62 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 115 km (71 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kings County, CA 117 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Los Angeles County, CA 137 km (85 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

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

  1. 2.4 4km S of Frazier Park, CA
  2. 1.9 10km WSW of Grapevine, CA
  3. 2.2 12km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  4. 1.7 15km NE of Lebec, CA
  5. 1.6 10km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  6. 1.8 12km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  7. 1.9 12km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  8. 2.7 13km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  9. 1.8 12km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  10. 1.9 13km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  11. 1.6 13km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  12. 1.8 11km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  13. 1.6 14km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  14. 1.5 13km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  15. 2.0 14km NNW 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 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 75,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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