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M 2.8ml

5km ESE of Yorba Linda, CA

· 4.8 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
224 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Orange County, 22 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 879 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 224 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 33.8758, -117.7658. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 22 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 132 km (82 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

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

  1. 2.0 4km SW of Newport Beach, CA
  2. 1.8 3km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  3. 1.8 3km SW of Newport Beach, CA
  4. 1.5 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  5. 1.6 1km SSE of Carson, CA
  6. 1.8 5km WSW of Huntington Beach, CA
  7. 1.6 12km NNE of Glendora, CA
  8. 1.5 11km S of Wrightwood, CA
  9. 1.5 2km WSW of Devore, CA
  10. 1.8 2km N of Fontana, CA
  11. 2.0 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  12. 1.6 3km NNW of Fontana, CA
  13. 1.8 7km N of Yorba Linda, CA
  14. 1.6 4km NNW of Fontana, CA
  15. 1.5 14km N of Bradbury, 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 440 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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