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M 2.1ml

26km NNE of Kernville, CA

· 2.9 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 48 kmKern County 79 kmInyo County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
2.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 48 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1621 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 40 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 35.9815, -118.3397. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 48 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Inyo County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 146 km (91 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Fresno County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 30km WSW of Olancha, CA
  2. 1.6 9km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  3. 1.5 9km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  4. 1.6 14km ENE of Coso Junction, CA
  5. 1.8 15km SSW of Olancha, CA
  6. 1.6 13km N of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 1.8 11km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  8. 1.5 7km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 1.8 7km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 2.1 4km NNE of Little Lake, CA
  11. 1.6 8km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  12. 2.1 8km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  13. 3.5 9km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  14. 1.9 17km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  15. 2.3 15km SSW 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 4.6 on 2019-07-18 — it released about 6,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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