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M 1.5ml

9km WNW of Lake Hughes, CA

· 9.8 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 62 kmVentura County 67 kmKern County 74 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 62 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3258 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 6.2 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 34.7030, -118.5385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 67 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA 74 km (46 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Orange County, CA 134 km (83 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orange 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. 1.6 6km WSW of Valencia, CA
  2. 1.6 2km NNE of Granada Hills, CA
  3. 1.7 7km SSW of Castaic, CA
  4. 2.1 3km N of Vincent, CA
  5. 1.6 4km N of Vincent, CA
  6. 1.6 7km SSW of Mojave, CA
  7. 1.6 11km N of Piru, CA
  8. 2.6 3km SE of Piru, CA
  9. 1.6 7km WSW of Tehachapi, CA
  10. 1.6 9km WNW of Lake Hughes, CA
  11. 1.9 4km SE of Piru, CA
  12. 1.6 6km SSW of Mojave, CA
  13. 1.7 7km SSW of Mojave, CA
  14. 1.6 6km SSE of Mojave, CA
  15. 1.6 2km SSE of Piru, 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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