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M 3.2ml

4km ESE of Lytle Creek, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 70 kmLos Angeles County 74 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
1042 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 70 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2984 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1042 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.2× more

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 34.2433, -117.4580. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 74 km (46 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 135 km (84 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino 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. 2.5 6km SW of Lytle Creek, CA
  2. 2.0 4km WNW of Muscoy, CA
  3. 1.7 6km NNW of Fontana, CA
  4. 2.2 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  5. 1.6 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  6. 2.0 5km ENE of Ontario, CA
  7. 2.1 12km NW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  8. 2.2 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  9. 1.9 6km N of Moreno Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 8km S of Hesperia, CA
  11. 1.9 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  12. 1.7 7km N of Running Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 4km ENE of Calimesa, CA
  14. 1.7 10km SSW of Lucerne Valley, CA
  15. 2.0 7km NNW of Big Bear Lake, 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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