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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

11km NNW of Anza, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 68 kmSan Diego County 69 kmOrange County 97 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
44 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Riverside County, 68 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2930 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 44 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 800 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 33.6408, -116.7308. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 68 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 97 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  2. 2.1 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  3. 1.6 5km NE of Anza, CA
  4. 1.6 6km WNW of Lake Henshaw, CA
  5. 1.5 7km WNW of Lake Henshaw, CA
  6. 2.4 5km NE of Anza, CA
  7. 2.4 8km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  8. 2.8 9km WSW of Anza, CA
  9. 2.5 6km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  10. 1.8 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  11. 3.1 4km ENE of Calimesa, CA
  12. 2.2 9km WSW of Anza, CA
  13. 1.7 6km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  14. 2.4 9km WSW of Anza, CA
  15. 1.8 13km NNE of Banning, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 2,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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