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M 1.6ml

12km SSE of San Pedro, CA

· 2.5 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 41 kmLos Angeles County 61 kmVentura County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 41 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2956 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 7.3 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 7.3 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 33.6467, -118.2217. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 41 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 115 km (72 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 4km S of Marina del Rey, CA
  2. 2.4 20km S of San Pedro, CA
  3. 1.9 20km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  4. 2.1 2km SSW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  5. 1.5 2km SW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  6. 1.5 7km ESE of San Pedro, CA
  7. 2.0 2km E of Santa Monica, CA
  8. 2.6 2km ESE of Santa Monica, CA
  9. 3.1 3km NNE of Yorba Linda, CA
  10. 1.6 11km WSW of Newport Beach, CA
  11. 1.6 4km NNW of Signal Hill, CA
  12. 1.6 15km S of Las Flores, CA
  13. 1.6 2km NNW of Willowbrook, CA
  14. 1.5 2km NE of Whittier, CA
  15. 1.8 1km E of Baldwin 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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