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M 1.1ml
Earthquake near Lone Pine, CA
Yes. A magnitude 1.1 earthquake was recorded 43 km (27 mi) south of Lone Pine, CA, at 8:34 am PDT on 20 October 2026 (15:34 UTC), 4.0 km deep. No felt reports to USGS yet.
USGS: 7 km SSW of Olancha, CA
- When
- 8:34 am PDT on 20 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 43 km (27 mi) south of Lone Pine, CA · earthquakes near Lone Pine
- Magnitude
- M 1.1 (ml)
- Depth
- 4.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 67 km NE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Southern Sierra Nevada fault, 4 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 6 hours ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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 1.5 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.1 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 10,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,200,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 640× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.1 about 1.5 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 5.8 on 2020-06-24 — about 10,000,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 7 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 5.3 27km E of Coso Junction, California · 37 km ESE of this epicentre
- 5.2 28km E of Coso Junction, California · 38 km ESE of this epicentre
- 5.2 7km ESE of Coso Junction, CA · 26 km SSE of this epicentre
- 5.2 18km NE of Olancha, CA · 24 km NE of this epicentre
- 5.1 13km SE of Little Lake, CA · 44 km SSE 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 36.2177, -118.0237. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 67 km (42 mi) | NE | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Tulare County, CA | 68 km (42 mi) | W | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Kern County, CA | 116 km (72 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near Kern County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| review status | automatic | reviewed | |
| longitude | -118.03 | -118.02 | |
| latitude | 36.22 | 36.22 | |
| depth | 4.57 | 3.99 | |
| magnitude | 1.12 | 1.13 | |
| location | 7 km S of Olancha, CA | 7 km SSW of Olancha, CA | |
| longitude | -118.02 | -118.03 | |
| latitude | 36.22 | 36.22 | |
| depth | 2.34 | 4.57 | |
| magnitude | 1.4 | 1.12 |
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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