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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

14 km SSW of Cantua Creek, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 63 kmSan Benito County 67 kmFresno County 77 kmMonterey County 85 kmMerced County 94 kmMadera County 107 kmSan Luis Obispo County 112 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 63 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 159 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 36.3935, -120.3878. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Benito County, CA 67 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Fresno County, CA 77 km (48 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Monterey County, CA 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Monterey County
Merced County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Merced County
Madera County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Madera County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 24 km NW of Parkfield, CA
  2. 1.6 11 km SW of Huron, CA
  3. 1.9 9 km ESE of Coalinga, CA
  4. 1.9 22 km NE of San Ardo, CA
  5. 1.8 16 km E of New Idria, CA
  6. 2.0 22 km NNE of San Ardo, CA
  7. 1.5 21 km NE of San Lucas, CA
  8. 1.6 12 km E of Coalinga, CA
  9. 1.9 16 km NE of New Idria, CA
  10. 1.7 8 km S of Lanare, CA
  11. 1.6 23 km WSW of New Idria, CA
  12. 2.9 13 km S of New Idria, CA
  13. 2.5 13 km SSW of Cantua Creek, CA
  14. 2.2 2 km ESE of Huron, CA
  15. 1.8 22 km NE of San Lucas, 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 2,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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