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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3km ENE of La Mirada, CA

· 7.5 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 33 kmLos Angeles County 40 kmVentura County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 33 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1706 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 33.9232, -117.9803. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 33 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 40 km (25 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 117 km (72 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Diego County, CA 150 km (93 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 2.3 17km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  2. 1.7 8km ESE of Yorba Linda, CA
  3. 1.6 17km SSE of San Pedro, CA
  4. 1.6 0km SSE of Baldwin Hills, CA
  5. 1.8 1km W of Yorba Linda, CA
  6. 1.9 8km WSW of Corona, CA
  7. 2.4 8km WSW of Corona, CA
  8. 1.5 4km ENE of Hawthorne, CA
  9. 2.0 4km N of Gardena, CA
  10. 1.7 4km ESE of Lennox, CA
  11. 1.7 4km ESE of Lennox, CA
  12. 1.7 3km N of Gardena, CA
  13. 1.8 4km N of Gardena, CA
  14. 2.0 3km ESE of Villa Park, CA
  15. 1.8 4km SE of Home Gardens, 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 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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