Earthquake near El Segundo, CA

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 3 km (2 mi) from the epicentre. In El Segundo, 4 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Manhattan Beach, Del Aire, Hermosa Beach, Hawthorne, Lennox, Inglewood.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.6 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 2,300,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 16 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake · 33 km NNW of this epicentre Jan 17, 1994
2. 5.9 The 1987 Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake · 38 km ENE of this epicentre Oct 1, 1987
3. 5.9 1km ENE of Granada Hills, California · 39 km N of this epicentre Jan 17, 1994
4. 5.6 7km NNE of Simi Valley, California · 50 km NNW of this epicentre Jan 17, 1994
5. 5.3 2 km SSW of Santa Monica, California · 9 km NNW of this epicentre Aug 4, 1927

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 33.9268, -118.4553. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.5 10km NW of Malibu, CA 05:16 UTC
2. 2.1 1km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 00:17 UTC
3. 2.9 1km W of Chatsworth, CA 21:45 UTC
4. 3.1 1km NW of Chatsworth, CA 10:19 UTC
5. 2.2 11km SSE of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 15:14 UTC
6. 2.4 10km SSE of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 15:09 UTC
7. 1.5 3km W of Highland Park, CA 09:24 UTC
8. 2.4 8km WSW of Westlake Village, CA 16:26 UTC
9. 2.1 10km SW of Westlake Village, CA 16:09 UTC
10. 1.6 0km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 07:41 UTC
11. 1.6 0km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 11:14 UTC
12. 1.6 1km SE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 20:13 UTC
13. 1.6 0km SE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 07:13 UTC
14. 3.7 1km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 07:03 UTC
15. 2.1 1km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 16:44 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:57 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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