Earthquake near Inglewood, CA

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 13 km (8 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Likely felt in: Inglewood in town, intensity II · Westmont 4 km, intensity II · Hawthorne 5 km, intensity II · Lawndale 9 km, intensity II · Gardena 9 km, intensity II · Florence-Graham 9 km, intensity II · Willowbrook 9 km, intensity II · Huntington Park 11 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.7 on 2024-09-12 — about 19,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 18 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake · 33 km NNW of this epicentre Jan 17, 1994
2. 6.4 The 1933 Long Beach, California Earthquake · 49 km SE of this epicentre Mar 11, 1933
3. 5.9 The 1987 Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake · 26 km ENE of this epicentre Oct 1, 1987
4. 5.9 1km ENE of Granada Hills, California · 37 km NNW of this epicentre Jan 17, 1994
5. 5.8 The 1991 Sierra Madre, California Earthquake · 47 km NE of this epicentre Jun 28, 1991

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 33.9632, -118.3400. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 1 km E of Palos Verdes Estates, CA 20:59 UTC
2. 1.6 1 km NW of Rolling Hills Estates, CA 14:35 UTC
3. 1.6 3 km N of Placentia, CA 19:59 UTC
4. 2.0 25 km S of Malibu, CA 06:27 UTC
5. 1.9 26 km SSE of Malibu, CA 06:27 UTC
6. 2.0 27 km S of Malibu, CA 04:43 UTC
7. 2.0 27 km SSE of Malibu, CA 03:50 UTC
8. 3.4 28 km SSE of Malibu, CA 03:27 UTC
9. 3.1 27 km SSE of Malibu, CA 10:35 UTC
10. 1.7 2 km N of Universal City, CA 00:01 UTC
11. 1.6 4 km SE of Rowland Heights, CA 14:02 UTC
12. 1.6 2 km NNW of Universal City, CA 13:29 UTC
13. 1.6 1 km NE of Sherman Oaks, CA 21:54 UTC
14. 2.1 1 km N of Manhattan Beach, CA 23:43 UTC
15. 1.6 2 km NW of Universal City, CA 16:48 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:30 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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