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M 1.9ml

3km NNW of Walnut, CA

· 4.0 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 39 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2385 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 34.0432, -117.8782. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 39 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Ventura County, CA 121 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Diego County, CA 153 km (95 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

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

  1. 2.2 1km NNW of Newport Beach, CA
  2. 2.1 2km E of Lennox, CA
  3. 1.9 2km ESE of Lennox, CA
  4. 1.6 1km NNE of Lennox, CA
  5. 1.6 1km NNE of Lennox, CA
  6. 2.0 4 km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  7. 1.9 4km SSW of Huntington Beach, CA
  8. 1.5 2 km SSW of Brea, CA
  9. 1.5 2km ESE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.9 3 km E of Lennox, CA
  11. 1.5 7km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  12. 2.0 0km SSW of South El Monte, CA
  13. 1.9 2km NNE of Gardena, CA
  14. 1.9 6 km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  15. 1.6 3km ESE of Home Gardens, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2018-08-29 — it released about 4,400 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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