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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

15km E of Kettleman City, CA

· 21 km deep · released about 32 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 5 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2432 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 32 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 36.0335, -119.7968. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 5 km (3 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 82 km (51 mi) S of here earthquakes near Fresno County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 93 km (58 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Tulare County, CA 94 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kern County, CA 123 km (76 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kern County
San Benito County, CA 132 km (82 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

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

  1. 1.8 22km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  2. 1.7 16km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  3. 2.7 7km ESE of Huron, CA
  4. 2.5 17km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  5. 2.5 18km ESE of Kettleman City, CA
  6. 2.1 8km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
  7. 2.3 19km E of Kettleman City, CA
  8. 1.8 13km SW of Alpaugh, CA
  9. 2.0 7km WSW of Kettleman City, CA
  10. 1.8 8km SE of Huron, CA
  11. 1.6 8km NNW of Avenal, CA
  12. 1.8 5km NE of Coalinga, CA
  13. 1.8 16km S of Kettleman City, CA
  14. 1.7 16km S of Kettleman City, CA
  15. 1.8 12km S of Stratford, 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 930 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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