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M 1.7ml

10 km ESE of Three Rivers, CA

· 4.5 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 19 kmFresno County 86 kmKings County 97 kmKern 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 19 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 723 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 36.3970, -118.8087. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 19 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 86 km (53 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Kings County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Kern County, CA 117 km (73 mi) N of here earthquakes near Kern County
Madera County, CA 123 km (77 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madera County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 9 km SE of Porterville, CA
  2. 1.9 10 km E of Porterville, CA
  3. 2.4 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  4. 2.1 6 km ENE of Orange Cove, CA
  5. 1.7 10 km E of Porterville, CA
  6. 1.6 24 km SW of Independence, CA
  7. 1.7 25 km SW of Independence, CA
  8. 1.6 25 km SW of Independence, CA
  9. 2.1 40 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  10. 2.0 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  11. 2.6 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  12. 1.5 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  13. 2.0 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  14. 3.2 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  15. 1.7 42 km WSW 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.

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