Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.0ml
Earthquake near Lone Pine, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Lone Pine in the 24 hours to 8:30 am PST (16:30 UTC). The last one was M 2.2, 16 km (10 mi) SE, at 9:24 pm PDT on 29 October 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Lone Pine
This page: a magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded 37 km (23 mi) northeast of Lone Pine, CA, at 8:06 pm PDT on 12 September 2019 (03:06 UTC), 20 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 36 km E of Independence, California
- When
- 8:06 pm PDT on 12 September 2019 ()
- Where
- 37 km (23 mi) northeast of Lone Pine, CA · earthquakes near Lone Pine
- Magnitude
- M 2.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 20 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Inyo County, 48 km SE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Hunter Mountain- Saline Valley fault, 12 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2618 days ago
Earthquake alerts for Lone Pine, CA
Get a notification in this browser when USGS records an earthquake near Lone Pine, CA. No account or email needed.
Alerts are on for .
Not a warning. An alert comes after USGS publishes a quake, usually minutes after the shaking. For early warning use ShakeAlert, through your phone's Wireless Emergency Alerts or the MyShake app.
This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Lone Pine, 37 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
- 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.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 2 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 6.1 46km E of Big Pine, California · 34 km N of this epicentre
- 5.5 10 km N of Independence, California · 36 km W of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 36.8578, -117.7985. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, CA | 48 km (30 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Inyo County |
| Esmeralda County, NV | 103 km (64 mi) | N | earthquakes near Esmeralda County |
| Tulare County, CA | 112 km (70 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Tulare County |
| Mono County, CA | 151 km (94 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Mono County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
46 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 2.2 18km S of Big Pine, CA
- 2.4 19km S of Big Pine, CA
- 1.9 18km S of Big Pine, CA
- 1.6 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 2.6 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 3.0 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 1.7 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 1.6 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 1.8 6 km ENE of Independence, California
- 1.7 17 km SE of Lone Pine, CA
- 2.1 16km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 2.8 17km SSE of Lone Pine, CA
- 1.8 37 km NE of Independence, California
- 2.4 34km ENE of Lone Pine, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.