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M 1.8ml

4km NE of Yorba Linda, CA

· 2.7 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
2.7 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Orange County, 26 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2199 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 33.9097, -117.7752. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 26 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 1.5 6km NNW of Lytle Creek, CA
  2. 1.8 6km NW of Corona, CA
  3. 1.6 3km N of Montebello, CA
  4. 1.6 4km SSW of Devore, CA
  5. 1.5 2km E of La Habra, CA
  6. 1.6 2km ESE of Compton, CA
  7. 1.5 2km NNW of Fontana, CA
  8. 2.0 4km NNE of Walnut, CA
  9. 1.7 7km N of Fontana, CA
  10. 1.5 5km SE of Lytle Creek, CA
  11. 1.6 15km NW of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  12. 2.6 6km NW of Corona, CA
  13. 1.6 6km NW of Corona, CA
  14. 1.9 6km NW of Corona, CA
  15. 1.6 8km SW of Lytle Creek, 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 8,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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