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M 1.8ml

9 km SSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, California

· 11 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 61 kmOrange County 62 kmVentura County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 61 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3421 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 33.6702, -118.4420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 62 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orange County
Ventura County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 4km WSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  2. 1.9 33km S of Malibu, CA
  3. 1.8 13km SE of Malibu, CA
  4. 1.9 3km NNW of Beverly Hills, CA
  5. 2.5 4km SE of Malibu, CA
  6. 2.5 6km SSE of Malibu, CA
  7. 1.9 12km SSE of Malibu Beach, CA
  8. 3.1 5km WNW of Willowbrook, CA
  9. 2.1 5km WNW of Willowbrook, CA
  10. 1.6 4km N of Gardena, CA
  11. 1.7 12km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  12. 1.6 11km S of San Pedro, CA
  13. 1.8 3km WSW of East Los Angeles, CA
  14. 1.9 17km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  15. 1.6 7km WSW of Huntington Beach, 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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