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M 3.5ml

2km N of Lakeland Village, CA

· 3.7 km deep · released about 2.9 tons of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 40 kmSan Diego County 88 kmLos Angeles County 104 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
676 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 40 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2582 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 676 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 59,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6× 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 33.6528, -117.3418. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 88 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 104 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  2. 2.7 3km NNW of Beaumont, CA
  3. 1.9 3km NNW of Beaumont, CA
  4. 1.6 4km SE of San Jacinto, CA
  5. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.6 4km SE of San Jacinto, CA
  7. 1.6 2km SE of Fontana, CA
  8. 1.6 7km S of Redlands, CA
  9. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.7 4km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  11. 1.8 5km S of Redlands, CA
  12. 1.6 2km N of Colton, CA
  13. 1.6 4km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 1.9 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  15. 1.6 3km S of Mentone, 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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