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M 1.9ml

4km SSW of Huntington Beach, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 20 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Orange County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2285 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 20 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 760,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 540,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 48× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 20 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 33.6590, -118.0260. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 64 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 128 km (80 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Diego County, CA 136 km (84 mi) WNW 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

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

  1. 2.3 23km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  2. 1.6 13km S of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  3. 1.7 24km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  4. 1.8 5km W of El Segundo, CA
  5. 2.1 5km W of El Segundo, CA
  6. 1.9 23km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  7. 1.7 5km SSW of MacArthur Park, CA
  8. 1.5 23km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  9. 1.8 22km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  10. 2.6 4km SSW of Westminster, CA
  11. 1.6 23km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  12. 2.3 24km SW of Laguna Beach, CA
  13. 1.8 22km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  14. 1.6 3km SE of Garden Grove, CA
  15. 1.6 3km SE of Garden Grove, 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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