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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.5md

18 km SW of Greenfield, CA

· 34 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Monterey County 7 kmSan Benito County 53 kmSanta Cruz County 109 kmSanta Clara County 119 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
34 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Monterey County, 7 km NNE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 647 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 6.2 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 36.1828, -121.3535. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Monterey County, CA 7 km (4 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Monterey County
San Benito County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Santa Cruz County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Santa Cruz County
Santa Clara County, CA 119 km (74 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 120 km (75 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Merced County, CA 126 km (78 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Merced County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 11 km NNW of Pinnacles, CA
  2. 3.1 4 km of Pinnacles, CA
  3. 2.7 4 km of Pinnacles, CA
  4. 1.9 12 km SSW of San Lucas, CA
  5. 2.0 2 km NNW of Pinnacles, CA
  6. 2.1 8 km NW of Pinnacles, CA
  7. 1.9 22 km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  8. 1.6 11 km SE of Lopez Point, CA
  9. 1.5 13 km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  10. 2.3 2 km NNE of Pinnacles, CA
  11. 1.8 7 km ESE of Pinnacles, CA
  12. 2.3 5 km NNW of Pinnacles, CA
  13. 1.6 8 km SE of Pinnacles, CA
  14. 1.9 7 km ENE of Pinnacles, CA
  15. 2.0 2 km NE of Pinnacles, 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 4.7 on 2021-10-25 — it released about 46,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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