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M 3.5mw

18km WSW of Corcoran, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 2.5 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 7 kmFresno County 80 kmTulare County 89 kmSan Luis Obispo County 96 kmKern County 120 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 3.5 (mw)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
166 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Kings County, 7 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3069 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 166 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.5 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.5 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.2× more

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 36.0410, -119.7465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 7 km (4 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 80 km (50 mi) S of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 89 km (55 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 96 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kern County, CA 120 km (75 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

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

  1. 1.7 12km ENE of Coalinga, CA
  2. 2.1 5km SSE of Avenal, CA
  3. 1.6 11km SW of Huron, CA
  4. 1.6 5km ESE of Avenal, CA
  5. 2.3 13km ESE of Coalinga, CA
  6. 2.2 12km ESE of Coalinga, CA
  7. 1.8 8km NNE of Kettleman City, CA
  8. 2.1 9km NE of Avenal, CA
  9. 1.9 6km NNE of Avenal, CA
  10. 2.1 18km WSW of Corcoran, CA
  11. 1.9 12km SE of Coalinga, CA
  12. 1.5 13km SW of Huron, CA
  13. 1.9 7km NNW of Avenal, CA
  14. 2.1 6km SE of Huron, CA
  15. 1.6 9km E of Coalinga, 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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