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M 1.8ml

17km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA

· -0.9 km deep · released about 13 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kern County 56 kmVentura County 71 kmSanta Barbara County 95 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
-0.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kern County, 56 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1200 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 13 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 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 810,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 72× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 13 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 34.9962, -119.1670. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kern County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Ventura County, CA 71 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 95 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles County, CA 122 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kings County, CA 133 km (83 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kings County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km S of Shafter, CA
  2. 1.6 4 km SSE of Frazier Park, CA
  3. 1.9 24 km SW of Lamont, CA
  4. 1.5 24 km SW of Lamont, CA
  5. 2.6 5 km SE of Oildale, CA
  6. 1.7 9 km ENE of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  7. 1.7 16 km ESE of Arvin, CA
  8. 1.7 16 km ESE of Maricopa, CA
  9. 2.4 12 km ENE of Lebec, CA
  10. 1.8 17 km NW of Grapevine, CA
  11. 2.1 14 km SW of Buttonwillow, CA
  12. 2.3 18 km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  13. 1.5 8 km E of Bakersfield, CA
  14. 2.4 20 km WNW of Grapevine, CA
  15. 1.8 18 km NW 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.

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