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M 1.9ml

15km W of Manhattan Beach, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 45 kmVentura County 74 kmOrange County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 45 km NE
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 25 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 38× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 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 33.8813, -118.5725. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 74 km (46 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Orange County, CA 77 km (48 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 3km SW of La Mirada, CA
  2. 1.6 4km SW of Baldwin Hills, CA
  3. 1.6 12km WNW of Malibu, CA
  4. 2.2 4km WSW of Panorama City, CA
  5. 1.6 9km WSW of Hermosa Beach, CA
  6. 1.7 31km S of Malibu, CA
  7. 1.6 7km SE of San Pedro, CA
  8. 1.8 7km SE of San Pedro, CA
  9. 1.6 2km NNE of Inglewood, CA
  10. 1.7 7km ESE of San Pedro, CA
  11. 2.3 4km SE of San Fernando, CA
  12. 1.9 9km SSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  13. 2.1 1km E of Santa Monica, CA
  14. 1.6 1km SE of San Fernando, CA
  15. 1.7 3km N of View Park-Windsor Hills, 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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