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M 2.4md
Earthquake near Home Garden, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Home Garden in the 24 hours to 7:40 pm PST (03:40 UTC). The last one was M 3.3, 35 km (22 mi) SW, at 6:21 am PDT on 4 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 2 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Home Garden
This page: a magnitude 2.4 earthquake was recorded 8 km (5 mi) southeast of Home Garden, CA, at 11:48 pm PDT on 2 April 2020 (06:48 UTC), 14 km deep.
USGS: 8km SE of Home Garden, CA
11 km (7 mi) SE of Hanford, CA · 62 km (39 mi) SSE of Fresno, CA
- When
- 11:48 pm PDT on 2 April 2020 ()
- Where
- 8 km (5 mi) southeast of Home Garden, CA · earthquakes near Home Garden
- Magnitude
- M 2.4 (md)
- Depth
- 14 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Kings County, 29 km SW
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2414 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 16 km (10 mi) from the epicentre. In Home Garden, 8 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Hanford, Armona, Lucerne, Corcoran, Lemoore, Goshen.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 110 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 95,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.5× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.4 about 110 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.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 36.2492, -119.5853. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings County, CA | 29 km (18 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Kings County |
| Fresno County, CA | 57 km (36 mi) | N | earthquakes near Fresno County |
| Tulare County, CA | 72 km (45 mi) | E | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Madera County, CA | 108 km (67 mi) | N | earthquakes near Madera County |
| San Luis Obispo County, CA | 123 km (77 mi) | SW | earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County |
| Kern County, CA | 127 km (79 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Kern County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
47 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.5 8km WSW of Corcoran, CA
- 2.0 8km W of Corcoran, CA
- 2.2 6km SSE of Riverdale, CA
- 1.8 1km SW of Kettleman City, CA
- 2.1 6km SW of Woodville, CA
- 2.5 2km N of Armona, CA
- 2.1 7km ESE of Kettleman City, CA
- 1.8 14km SE of Kettleman City, CA
- 2.0 6km NNW of Kettleman City, CA
- 1.9 11km SSE of Huron, CA
- 2.2 9km NE of Kettleman City, CA
- 2.5 10km NNE of Kettleman City, CA
- 1.9 6km E of Huron, CA
- 2.4 4km NE of Lemoore, CA
- 1.8 9km SSE 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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