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M 1.7ml

1km ENE of Lennox, CA

· 19 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 29 kmOrange County 60 kmVentura County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 29 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1978 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 33.9403, -118.3412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 29 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 60 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Ventura County, CA 86 km (54 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County

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. 1.7 2km NNW of Inglewood, CA
  2. 1.9 1km SSW of Malibu, CA
  3. 1.8 4km NW of Silver Lake, CA
  4. 1.8 3km SSE of Garden Grove, CA
  5. 1.8 1km NNW of La Puente, CA
  6. 2.0 13km SSE of Malibu Beach, CA
  7. 1.5 2km WSW of Costa Mesa, CA
  8. 1.9 10km SSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  9. 2.1 0km W of Brea, CA
  10. 1.6 1km NNW of South Gate, CA
  11. 1.6 22km SSW of Seal Beach, CA
  12. 1.9 3km WSW of Compton, CA
  13. 1.6 6km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  14. 2.5 15km SSE of Malibu, CA
  15. 1.6 17km W of Manhattan Beach, 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 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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