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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

3km SW of La Mirada, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 34 kmLos Angeles County 39 kmVentura County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 34 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2190 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 5.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 33.8947, -118.0372. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 34 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 113 km (70 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Diego County, CA 152 km (94 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

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

  1. 1.6 1km E of Rolling Hills, CA
  2. 1.9 2km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  3. 2.2 14km NNE of Glendora, CA
  4. 1.7 2km W of Willowbrook, CA
  5. 3.5 2km W of Willowbrook, CA
  6. 2.2 22km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  7. 1.5 10km SW of Corona, CA
  8. 2.0 8km E of Yorba Linda, CA
  9. 2.2 4km ESE of Altadena, CA
  10. 1.8 1km ENE of Baldwin Hills, CA
  11. 1.9 4km NNW of Orange, CA
  12. 1.5 2km SW of La Habra, CA
  13. 1.6 2km SW of La Habra, CA
  14. 1.7 2km SE of Placentia, CA
  15. 2.7 2km SSE of Placentia, 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 4.5 on 2020-09-19 — it released about 35,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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