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M 1.5ml

14km N of La Verne, CA

· 6.5 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 47 km W
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 5.9 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 34.2227, -117.7468. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 47 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 61 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 1km NW of Fontana, CA
  2. 1.6 1km NE of Loma Linda, CA
  3. 1.5 0km SSW of Loma Linda, CA
  4. 2.2 8km N of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  5. 1.5 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.8 5km SSE of Lytle Creek, CA
  7. 1.5 6 km SSE of Lytle Creek, California
  8. 2.0 8 km ENE of San Antonio Heights, California
  9. 1.6 3 km ENE of El Cerrito Corona, California
  10. 1.7 3 km NNE of Fontana, California
  11. 2.0 5 km NW of Fontana, California
  12. 1.6 4 km SSE of Placentia, California
  13. 1.6 2 km SE of Home Gardens, California
  14. 1.8 10 km ENE of Villa Park, California
  15. 2.4 4 km SSE of Lytle Creek, California

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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