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M 2.6ml

42 km WSW of Olancha, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tulare County 32 kmKern County 92 kmInyo County 104 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tulare County, 32 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 207 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 36.1353, -118.4402. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tulare County, CA 32 km (20 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Inyo County, CA 104 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Fresno County, CA 129 km (80 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Madera County, CA 167 km (104 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

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

  1. 2.5 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  2. 1.6 12 km S of Olancha, CA
  3. 1.9 10 km E of Porterville, CA
  4. 1.8 13 km SW of Olancha, CA
  5. 2.4 42 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  6. 2.2 12 km S of Olancha, CA
  7. 2.1 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  8. 1.7 10 km E of Porterville, CA
  9. 1.8 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  10. 1.7 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  11. 2.1 12 km S of Olancha, CA
  12. 1.6 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  13. 1.8 7 km NE of Coso Junction, CA
  14. 1.8 28 km WSW of Olancha, CA
  15. 1.9 28 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2020-06-04 — it released about 220 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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