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M 1.8ml

18km NE of Olancha, CA

· 5.7 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Inyo County, 45 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1328 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 36.3708, -117.8443. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 85 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 139 km (86 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 10km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 2.1 17km NE of Olancha, CA
  3. 3.1 25km SW of Lone Pine, CA
  4. 2.3 17km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  5. 2.1 11km N of Coso Junction, CA
  6. 1.9 17km ENE of Little Lake, CA
  7. 1.8 19km E of Little Lake, CA
  8. 1.9 13km NNE of Olancha, CA
  9. 1.8 20km E of Little Lake, CA
  10. 1.7 20km E of Little Lake, CA
  11. 1.6 19km E of Little Lake, CA
  12. 2.8 20km E of Little Lake, CA
  13. 1.5 19km E of Little Lake, CA
  14. 1.6 19km E of Little Lake, CA
  15. 2.3 20km E of Little Lake, 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 870,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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