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M 1.6ml

3km E of Mission Viejo, CA

· 5.1 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 15 kmLos Angeles County 88 kmSan Diego County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 15 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3188 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 7.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 33.6038, -117.6355. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 15 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 88 km (54 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 103 km (64 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

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

  1. 1.6 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  2. 2.2 12km S of Seal Beach, CA
  3. 1.6 1km E of Yorba Linda, CA
  4. 1.8 2km E of Menifee, CA
  5. 1.6 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  6. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  7. 2.1 3km SSE of Huntington Beach, CA
  8. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  9. 1.6 4km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.9 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  11. 1.5 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  12. 2.0 8km SSW of Huntington Beach, CA
  13. 3.5 2km N of Lakeland Village, CA
  14. 2.1 2km N of Lakeland Village, CA
  15. 2.2 2km N of Lakeland Village, 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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