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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

0 km N of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA

· 9.5 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 23 kmOrange County 64 kmVentura County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
9.5 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 23 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1032 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 33.9992, -118.3477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Ventura County, CA 83 km (51 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

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

  1. 1.5 2 km NE of East Los Angeles, CA
  2. 1.6 1 km SW of Rosemead, CA
  3. 2.3 10 km SSW of Valencia, CA
  4. 1.9 10 km SW of Valencia, CA
  5. 2.3 22 km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  6. 1.6 13 km SSE of Las Flores, CA
  7. 1.6 3 km ENE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  8. 1.9 4 km ESE of Placentia, CA
  9. 2.0 11 km SSW of Malibu, CA
  10. 1.9 2 km ENE of El Segundo, CA
  11. 2.2 2 km N of Huntington Park, CA
  12. 2.5 3 km N of Huntington Park, CA
  13. 2.0 3 km SE of Marina del Rey, CA
  14. 1.7 4 km NW of Sylmar, CA
  15. 1.8 18 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2020-09-19 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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