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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

19km SE of Kettleman City, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 19 kmSan Luis Obispo County 83 kmFresno County 96 kmTulare County 97 kmKern County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 19 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2654 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 35.9072, -119.7887. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 19 km (12 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 83 km (52 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Fresno County, CA 96 km (59 mi) S of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 97 km (61 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 114 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kern County
San Benito County, CA 140 km (87 mi) ESE 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

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

  1. 2.3 3km ESE of Armona, CA
  2. 1.6 13km ESE of Coalinga, CA
  3. 1.9 14km WSW of Stratford, CA
  4. 1.8 11km SW of Stratford, CA
  5. 1.9 11km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
  6. 1.9 10km SW of Stratford, CA
  7. 1.9 5km ESE of Huron, CA
  8. 1.7 12km ENE of Coalinga, CA
  9. 1.6 5km ESE of Cholame, CA
  10. 1.6 11km NW of Avenal, CA
  11. 2.3 12km SE of Alpaugh, CA
  12. 1.7 12km NNW of Avenal, CA
  13. 1.8 6km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  14. 1.9 11km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
  15. 1.8 8km SSW of Kettleman City, 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 4.0 on 2018-11-27 — it released about 1,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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