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M 2.6ml

31km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

· -0.1 km deep · released about 260 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 72 kmVentura County 86 kmOrange County 86 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 72 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 260 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 59,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 42,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 260 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 33.6695, -118.7092. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Orange County, CA 86 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 17km SSE of Malibu, CA
  2. 1.7 15km SW of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  3. 1.5 6km SSE of Malibu, CA
  4. 1.5 2km NW of Lennox, CA
  5. 1.8 17km SSE of Malibu, CA
  6. 1.7 6km SW of Signal Hill, CA
  7. 1.8 0km WNW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  8. 1.7 0km SSE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  9. 1.6 6km ESE of Agoura Hills, CA
  10. 1.6 2km WSW of San Pedro, CA
  11. 1.6 1km SE of Malibu Beach, CA
  12. 2.3 5km W of El Segundo, CA
  13. 1.9 2km SE of Carson, CA
  14. 1.6 12km SSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  15. 1.9 3km E of Gardena, 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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