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M 2.4ml

1km ENE of Brea, CA

· 3.2 km deep · released about 110 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
3.2 km below the surface
Felt
18 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Orange County, 29 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1512 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 18 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 110 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 95,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 110 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 33.9205, -117.8887. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 46 km (29 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Diego County, CA 144 km (89 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km N of East La Mirada, California
  2. 1.9 2 km N of East La Mirada, California
  3. 1.6 3 km SE of Sunset Beach, California
  4. 1.9 2km SW of MacArthur Park, CA
  5. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 2.1 2km SE of Brea, CA
  7. 1.5 3km NE of Fontana, CA
  8. 1.6 3km E of Marina del Rey, CA
  9. 1.7 10km WNW of Corona, CA
  10. 2.1 4km SW of Baldwin Hills, CA
  11. 1.6 2km WSW of Lakewood, CA
  12. 1.6 2km SE of Hawthorne, CA
  13. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 1.8 8km N of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  15. 1.9 2km NW of Willowbrook, 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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