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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

4km SE of Ontario, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 42 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1568 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 34.0240, -117.5970. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 42 km (26 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 135 km (84 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

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

  1. 1.5 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  2. 2.2 1km SSE of Colton, CA
  3. 1.5 5km WSW of Fontana, CA
  4. 2.2 1km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 2.0 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  6. 3.6 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  7. 2.0 9km ENE of Villa Park, CA
  8. 1.7 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  9. 1.9 4km NW of Villa Park, CA
  10. 1.7 1km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  11. 1.7 1km WSW of Loma Linda, CA
  12. 1.9 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  13. 2.0 10km SW of Corona, CA
  14. 1.5 7km S of Lytle Creek, CA
  15. 1.7 4km NE of Loma Linda, 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 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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