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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.6md

13 km NE of Kettleman City, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 250 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 3 kmFresno County 78 kmSan Luis Obispo County 94 kmTulare County 97 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 3 km E
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 201 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 250 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 250 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 36.0768, -119.8495. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 3 km (2 mi) W of here earthquakes near Kings County
Fresno County, CA 78 km (48 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Fresno County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 94 km (58 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Tulare County, CA 97 km (61 mi) W of here earthquakes near Tulare County
San Benito County, CA 126 km (78 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Kern County, CA 130 km (81 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 26 km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  2. 3.0 27 km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  3. 2.7 14 km SW of Lanare, CA
  4. 2.1 7 km NNE of Avenal, CA
  5. 1.8 6 km NNE of Avenal, CA
  6. 1.8 1 km SSW of Huron, CA
  7. 1.6 4 km WSW of Huron, CA
  8. 1.7 10 km ESE of Huron, CA
  9. 1.7 1 km ENE of Huron, CA
  10. 1.8 26 km SSE of Kettleman City, CA
  11. 2.0 26 km SE of Kettleman City, CA
  12. 1.6 1 km S of Huron, CA
  13. 1.5 1 km SSE of Huron, CA
  14. 1.8 2 km SSE of Huron, CA
  15. 2.3 1 km 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2025-02-14 — it released about 290 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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