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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5km SE of Home Gardens, CA

· -0.5 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 33 kmLos Angeles County 82 kmSan Diego County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 33 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

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

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.4 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 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 33.8430, -117.4862. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 33 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 82 km (51 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 112 km (70 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

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

  1. 1.7 2km E of Foothill Ranch, CA
  2. 1.8 5km ENE of Coto De Caza, CA
  3. 1.8 4km WSW of Irvine, CA
  4. 2.6 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 2.0 2km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 1.8 5km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  7. 1.7 2km SSW of Yorba Linda, CA
  8. 1.7 1km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  9. 2.2 2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  10. 2.5 6km SW of Lytle Creek, CA
  11. 2.0 4km WNW of Muscoy, CA
  12. 1.7 6km NNW of Fontana, CA
  13. 2.2 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  14. 1.6 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  15. 2.5 7km NNE of Green Acres, 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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