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M 1.8ml

5 km NNW of Coso Junction, CA

Yes. A magnitude 1.8 earthquake was recorded 5 km NNW of Coso Junction, CA, at 10:13 am PDT on 2 April 2024 (17:13 UTC), 7.7 km deep.

· 7.7 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Inyo County 73 kmTulare County 75 kmKern County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 73 km NE
Nearest mapped fault
Southern Sierra Nevada fault, 3 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 954 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 11 km (7 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 7.1 on 2019-07-06 — about 89,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 18 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.3 The 1946 Walker Pass, California Earthquake · 43 km S of this epicentre
  2. 5.8 16km NNE of Ridgecrest, California · 47 km SE of this epicentre
  3. 5.4 14km NW of Inyokern, CA · 40 km S of this epicentre
  4. 5.4 4km N of Inyokern, CA · 47 km SSE of this epicentre
  5. 5.4 17km N of Ridgecrest, California · 44 km SE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 36.0865, -117.9658. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Inyo County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NE earthquakes near Inyo County
Tulare County, CA 75 km (47 mi) WNW earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SW earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 14 km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  2. 2.0 15 km SSW of Olancha, CA
  3. 1.9 9 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  4. 1.5 15 km E of Coso Junction, CA
  5. 2.0 15 km E of Coso Junction, CA
  6. 1.8 9 km NNE of Coso Junction, CA
  7. 1.6 17 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
  8. 1.9 6 km SW of Coso Junction, CA
  9. 2.5 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  10. 2.2 5 km SW of Coso Junction, CA
  11. 1.7 30 km W of Olancha, CA
  12. 1.9 30 km W of Olancha, CA
  13. 1.8 10 km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  14. 1.8 6 km SW of Coso Junction, 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.

On USGS

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