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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

16km WSW of Soledad, CA

· 8.1 km deep · released about 52 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monterey County 21 kmSan Benito County 45 kmSanta Cruz County 86 kmSanta Clara County 97 kmMerced County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monterey County, 21 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3151 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 52 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 52 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 36.3667, -121.4857. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monterey County, CA 21 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Monterey County
San Benito County, CA 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Santa Cruz County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Santa Cruz County
Santa Clara County, CA 97 km (60 mi) S of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County
Merced County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Merced County
San Mateo County, CA 141 km (87 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5km ESE of Pinnacles, CA
  2. 2.1 5km ESE of Pinnacles, CA
  3. 1.7 5km ESE of Pinnacles, CA
  4. 2.1 11km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  5. 2.0 10km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  6. 1.7 6km NNE of Pinnacles, CA
  7. 2.0 12km ESE of Pinnacles, CA
  8. 1.6 20km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  9. 3.0 19km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  10. 2.3 15km ESE of Tres Pinos, CA
  11. 1.6 15km NW of Pinnacles, CA
  12. 1.8 6km SE of Lopez Point, CA
  13. 2.0 23km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  14. 2.0 12km NW of Pinnacles, CA
  15. 2.1 12km S of Tres Pinos, 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 4.6 on 2017-11-13 — it released about 4,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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