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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

10km N of Bradley, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monterey County 57 kmSan Luis Obispo County 70 kmSan Benito County 78 kmKings County 88 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monterey County, 57 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1282 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 35.9543, -120.7843. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monterey County, CA 57 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Monterey County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 70 km (43 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
San Benito County, CA 78 km (48 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Kings County, CA 88 km (55 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 135 km (84 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Santa Cruz County, CA 161 km (100 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Santa Cruz County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 22 km ENE of San Lucas, CA
  2. 1.8 24 km NNE of San Ardo, CA
  3. 1.5 18 km N of San Simeon, CA
  4. 1.6 12km NW of Parkfield, CA
  5. 1.6 23km WSW of New Idria, CA
  6. 2.4 11km SSE of Parkfield, CA
  7. 1.6 18km NNW of San Simeon, CA
  8. 1.7 21km NNW of San Simeon, CA
  9. 1.7 3km ESE of San Ardo, CA
  10. 2.5 24km ENE of San Ardo, CA
  11. 1.8 8km W of Templeton, CA
  12. 2.3 24km NE of King City, CA
  13. 2.1 23km NNE of San Lucas, CA
  14. 1.6 16km NW of Parkfield, CA
  15. 1.7 6km W of San Ardo, 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 4.3 on 2019-12-17 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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