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M 3.5ml

7km NW of Rancho Cucamonga, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 2.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 57 kmLos Angeles County 58 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
378 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 57 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2367 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 378 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 75,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.7× more

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 34.1717, -117.6312. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 57 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1km W of San Gabriel, CA
  2. 1.5 8km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  3. 1.8 2km SW of Mira Loma, CA
  4. 2.0 7km SSW of Devore, CA
  5. 1.7 7km SSW of Devore, CA
  6. 1.6 2km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 2.4 2km NE of Colton, CA
  8. 1.6 4km NNW of Glen Avon, CA
  9. 1.7 1km S of Ontario, CA
  10. 2.9 3km WNW of Yorba Linda, CA
  11. 1.6 2km NE of Placentia, CA
  12. 1.5 2km SW of Mira Loma, CA
  13. 1.8 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 2.0 1km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  15. 1.5 6km NW of Glen Avon, 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.

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