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M 1.9ml

27km W of Olancha, CA

· 5.2 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 43 kmInyo County 87 kmKern County 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 43 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1824 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 21 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 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 36.2740, -118.3098. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 43 km (26 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 87 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Kern County, CA 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 9km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 1.6 9km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  3. 1.7 18km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  4. 3.0 11km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  5. 1.6 10km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  6. 1.9 6km WNW of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 1.8 10km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  8. 1.6 5km WNW of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 2.1 8km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 2.4 8km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  11. 2.1 17km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  12. 1.7 18km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  13. 1.8 9km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  14. 2.5 12km S of Olancha, CA
  15. 1.8 5km WNW of Coso Junction, 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 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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