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M 1.5ml

16km SSE of Big Bear Lake, CA

· 6.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 89 kmOrange County 97 kmSan Bernardino County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 89 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2896 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 5.4 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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.

Where

Epicentre 34.1010, -116.8622. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 89 km (56 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 97 km (60 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 105 km (65 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 120 km (75 mi) N 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

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

  1. 2.5 3km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  2. 2.0 2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  3. 2.0 8km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  4. 2.1 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  5. 1.8 19km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  6. 1.6 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  7. 1.8 11km NNE of Running Springs, CA
  8. 1.5 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  9. 2.1 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  10. 1.8 14km N of Cabazon, CA
  11. 1.7 14km SSE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  12. 1.8 9km NNW of Banning, CA
  13. 1.9 9km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  14. 2.7 6km SSW of Banning, CA
  15. 1.8 6km SSE of Mentone, 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 2018-05-08 — it released about 31,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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