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M 1.6md

22 km WNW of San Simeon, California

· 4.0 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monterey County 57 kmSan Luis Obispo County 95 kmSan Benito County 102 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monterey County, 57 km N
Nearest mapped fault
San Gregorio fault, 5 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 3498 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 6.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 35.7352, -121.4082. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monterey County, CA 57 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Monterey County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
San Benito County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 1.8 23 km SE of Big Sur, California
  2. 2.5 9 km SW of Oak Shores, California
  3. 1.8 7 km SW of Oak Shores, California
  4. 2.0 8 km SW of Oak Shores, California
  5. 2.3 8 km NE of San Simeon, California
  6. 2.2 11 km SSW of Lake Nacimiento, California
  7. 1.7 8 km E of San Simeon, California
  8. 1.7 16 km WSW of Lockwood, California
  9. 1.8 14 km NNW of San Simeon, California
  10. 1.7 7 km NE of Lockwood, California
  11. 2.1 38 km WNW of San Simeon, California
  12. 1.9 21 km NW of San Simeon, California
  13. 2.1 12 km WNW of Oak Shores, California
  14. 2.0 17 km NW of San Simeon, California
  15. 1.6 10 km ENE of San Simeon, 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.

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