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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

6 km E of Cantua Creek, CA

· 21 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fresno County 60 kmKings County 62 kmSan Benito County 76 kmMerced County 87 kmMadera County 89 kmMonterey County 101 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fresno County, 60 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 135 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 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 36.5107, -120.2445. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fresno County, CA 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Kings County, CA 62 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Benito County, CA 76 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Merced County, CA 87 km (54 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Merced County
Madera County, CA 89 km (56 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Madera County
Monterey County, CA 101 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Monterey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 12 km E of Coalinga, CA
  2. 2.3 4 km NNE of Lemoore, CA
  3. 1.9 16 km NE of New Idria, CA
  4. 1.7 8 km S of Lanare, CA
  5. 2.9 13 km S of New Idria, CA
  6. 2.5 13 km SSW of Cantua Creek, CA
  7. 2.2 2 km ESE of Huron, CA
  8. 1.9 2 km WSW of Huron, CA
  9. 1.7 3 km ENE of Huron, CA
  10. 2.3 4 km ENE of Huron, CA
  11. 2.9 1 km ENE of Huron, CA
  12. 1.8 1 km SW of Huron, CA
  13. 2.4 2 km ESE of Huron, CA
  14. 3.1 1 km ENE of Huron, CA
  15. 2.5 1 km SW 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 440 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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