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M 1.5ml

29 km SW of Laguna Beach, CA

· 5.8 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 42 kmLos Angeles County 100 kmSan Diego County 116 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 42 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1117 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 33.3308, -117.9638. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 116 km (72 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Ventura County, CA 157 km (98 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7 km E of San Juan Capistrano, CA
  2. 1.5 44 km SE of Avalon, CA
  3. 1.9 14 km S of Newport Beach, CA
  4. 1.7 46 km ENE of San Clemente Is. (SE tip), CA
  5. 1.7 13 km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  6. 1.5 8 km E of San Juan Capistrano, CA
  7. 2.7 22 km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  8. 1.5 4 km SSW of Westminster, CA
  9. 1.7 2 km NE of Newport Beach, CA
  10. 2.2 21 km E of Avalon, CA
  11. 1.7 3 km SSE of Costa Mesa, CA
  12. 3.4 3 km ENE of Newport Beach, CA
  13. 3.6 2 km NE of Newport Beach, CA
  14. 2.8 3 km NE of Newport Beach, CA
  15. 1.5 16 km S of San Pedro, 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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