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M 1.6ml

30km ESE of Avalon, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 59 kmLos Angeles County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 59 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2817 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 33.1987, -118.0550. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 113 km (70 mi) S of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 121 km (75 mi) W 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

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

  1. 2.3 14km N of Avalon, CA
  2. 2.2 1km NNW of Newport Beach, CA
  3. 1.8 48km SSW of San Clemente, CA
  4. 1.7 17km SW of Dana Point, CA
  5. 2.7 16km W of Camp Pendleton South, CA
  6. 2.7 45km WSW of Carlsbad, CA
  7. 2.0 26km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  8. 2.6 44km WSW of Carlsbad, CA
  9. 3.2 21km S of San Pedro, CA
  10. 2.1 49km WSW of Carlsbad, CA
  11. 2.1 41km WSW of Carlsbad, CA
  12. 2.0 49km WSW of Encinitas, CA
  13. 1.8 49km WSW of Carlsbad, CA
  14. 1.7 22km SSW of Seal Beach, CA
  15. 3.5 23km SSW of Seal Beach, 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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