Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.6ml
Earthquake near Lakeland Village, CA
Yes. A magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 6 km (4 mi) northwest of Lakeland Village, CA, at 12:14 pm PDT on 21 October 2026 (19:14 UTC), 2.5 km deep. No felt reports to USGS yet. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 6 km NW of Lakeland Village, CA
6 km (4 mi) WSW of Lake Elsinore, CA · 101 km (63 mi) ESE of Los Angeles, CA
- When
- 12:14 pm PDT on 21 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 6 km (4 mi) northwest of Lakeland Village, CA · earthquakes near Lakeland Village
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 2.5 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Orange County, 35 km W
- Nearest mapped fault
- Elsinore fault, under 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 5 hours ago
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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 10 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Lakeland Village, 6 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). 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: Lakeland Village 6 km, intensity II · Lake Elsinore 7 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.2 on 2024-01-25 — about 11,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 9 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.7 The 1918 San Jacinto, California Earthquake · 41 km ENE of this epicentre
- 6.2 3 km SE of San Bernardino, California · 48 km NNE of this epicentre
- 6.0 The 1910 Lake Elsinore, California Earthquake · 3 km N of this epicentre
- 5.4 5km S of Chino Hills, CA · 46 km NW of this epicentre
- 5.3 6km SSE of Hemet, CA · 43 km E of this epicentre
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 33.6718, -117.3993. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange County, CA | 35 km (22 mi) | W | earthquakes near Orange County |
| San Diego County, CA | 92 km (57 mi) | SE | earthquakes near San Diego County |
| Los Angeles County, CA | 99 km (61 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Los Angeles County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | 7 km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA | 6 km NW of Lakeland Village, CA | |
| longitude | -117.4 | -117.4 | |
| latitude | 33.69 | 33.67 | |
| depth | 5.25 | 2.54 | |
| magnitude | 1.33 | 1.55 |
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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