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M 1.9ml

19km NNW of Tehachapi, CA

· 5.1 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 19 kmTulare County 107 kmVentura 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 19 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1307 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 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× 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 35.2872, -118.5290. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 19 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Tulare County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Ventura County, CA 117 km (73 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kings County, CA 145 km (90 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kings County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 13 km SE of Bodfish, CA
  2. 2.8 13km SE of Bodfish, CA
  3. 2.2 14km ENE of Lake Isabella, CA
  4. 2.1 19km NNW of Grapevine, CA
  5. 2.0 10km NW of Tehachapi, CA
  6. 2.0 14km ENE of Lake Isabella, CA
  7. 1.6 14km ENE of Lake Isabella, CA
  8. 1.9 23km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  9. 1.6 23km ESE of Bodfish, CA
  10. 2.6 13km SE of Bodfish, CA
  11. 2.0 25km N of Tehachapi, CA
  12. 1.9 13km SE of Bodfish, CA
  13. 1.6 24km S of Bodfish, CA
  14. 1.6 12km SE of Bodfish, CA
  15. 1.7 18km NE of Oildale, 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 4.0 on 2021-08-27 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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