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M 1.5ml

6km S of Littlerock, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 40 kmOrange County 90 kmVentura County 107 kmKern County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 40 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2128 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 5.4 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 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 34.4643, -117.9790. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 90 km (56 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Ventura County, CA 107 km (66 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA 120 km (74 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3km WNW of Sylmar, CA
  2. 1.6 2km N of Claremont, CA
  3. 2.2 7km SW of Pearblossom, CA
  4. 1.6 2km SW of San Fernando, CA
  5. 1.8 2km SW of San Fernando, CA
  6. 1.9 7km SW of Pearblossom, CA
  7. 1.5 7km SSE of Littlerock, CA
  8. 2.0 2km N of Lytle Creek, CA
  9. 1.6 5km NNW of Sylmar, CA
  10. 1.6 1km W of Sierra Madre, CA
  11. 1.8 4km NNW of Wrightwood, CA
  12. 1.8 7km SW of Pearblossom, CA
  13. 2.5 0km NW of Pacoima, CA
  14. 2.3 1km WNW of Pacoima, CA
  15. 1.6 3km SSE of Charter Oak, 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 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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