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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

20km ESE of Kettleman City, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 830 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 15 kmSan Luis Obispo County 89 kmFresno County 91 kmTulare County 93 kmKern County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Kings County, 15 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1512 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 830 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 830 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 35.9507, -119.7528. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 15 km (9 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Fresno County, CA 91 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 93 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14km S of Kettleman City, CA
  2. 1.7 18km S of Avenal, CA
  3. 2.3 10km SSW of Huron, CA
  4. 1.6 8km NW of Kettleman City, CA
  5. 1.7 9km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
  6. 2.3 7km NNW of Lemoore, CA
  7. 1.8 12km SW of Stratford, CA
  8. 1.7 7km S of Huron, CA
  9. 1.6 10km SW of Huron, CA
  10. 1.6 17km S of Kettleman City, CA
  11. 1.6 7km N of Kettleman City, CA
  12. 1.7 6km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
  13. 1.6 18km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  14. 2.4 3km SSW of Huron, CA
  15. 1.6 12km WSW of Huron, 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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