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M 3.1ml

15 km SW of Lone Pine, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Tulare County, 60 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 862 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 12,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 8,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 36.4972, -118.1945. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 60 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Inyo County, CA 71 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Inyo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  2. 1.9 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  3. 2.0 18 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  4. 1.6 18 km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
  5. 2.4 13 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  6. 1.5 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  7. 2.4 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  8. 2.0 9 km NNW of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 2.3 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  10. 1.6 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  11. 2.0 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  12. 1.6 17 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  13. 1.7 30 km W of Olancha, CA
  14. 1.9 30 km W of Olancha, CA
  15. 2.1 20 km NE 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 5.8 on 2020-06-24 — it released about 12,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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