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M 2.4md

6km E of Orange Cove, CA

· 24 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fresno County 40 kmTulare County 60 kmKings County 79 kmMadera County 79 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Fresno County, 40 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1633 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 100 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 36.6195, -119.2477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fresno County, CA 40 km (25 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Tulare County, CA 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Kings County, CA 79 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kings County
Madera County, CA 79 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 1 km S of Orange Cove, CA
  2. 2.1 6 km ENE of Orange Cove, CA
  3. 2.4 4 km SSE of Shaver Lake, CA
  4. 2.5 14 km NNW of Squaw Valley, CA
  5. 2.4 17 km NNE of Squaw Valley, CA
  6. 2.7 3 km E of Kingsburg, CA
  7. 1.8 3 km S of Sunnyside, CA
  8. 2.1 1 km SE of Orosi, CA
  9. 2.4 9 km S of Shaver Lake, CA
  10. 2.0 7 km ESE of Orange Cove, CA
  11. 1.7 10 km ESE of Three Rivers, CA
  12. 2.1 18 km S of Auberry, CA
  13. 2.3 4 km E of Orange Cove, CA
  14. 2.3 5 km ENE of Orange Cove, CA
  15. 2.2 2 km ESE of Orange Cove, 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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