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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

22 km NNW of Lost Hills, California

· 11 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 29 kmSan Luis Obispo County 76 kmTulare County 101 kmFresno County 106 kmKern County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 29 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3515 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 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 35.8087, -119.7812. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Tulare County, CA 101 km (63 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Fresno County, CA 106 km (66 mi) S of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Kern County, CA 108 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kern County
San Benito County, CA 147 km (91 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Benito County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 14 km SSW of Kettleman City, California
  2. 2.0 14 km SSE of Avenal, California
  3. 1.5 14 km SSE of Avenal, California
  4. 1.5 14 km SSE of Avenal, California
  5. 1.7 15 km SSE of Avenal, California
  6. 2.8 15 km SSE of Avenal, California
  7. 1.9 15 km SSW of Kettleman City, California
  8. 2.2 15 km SSE of Avenal, California
  9. 1.8 16km SSE of Avenal, CA
  10. 1.8 Central California
  11. 1.8 15 km SSE of Avenal, California
  12. 1.6 6 km NNE of Avenal, California
  13. 1.8 8 km NE of Avenal, California
  14. 1.5 10 km NE of Avenal, California
  15. 1.7 9 km S of Huron, California

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 4.9 on 2016-02-24 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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