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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3km SE of Winchester, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 66 kmSan Diego County 78 kmRiverside County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 66 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2889 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 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 33.6842, -117.0640. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 78 km (49 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 98 km (61 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Los Angeles County, CA 124 km (77 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 10km WSW of Idyllwild, CA
  2. 2.1 8km S of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.9 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  4. 1.7 10km WNW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  5. 1.7 5km SSE of Banning, CA
  6. 1.9 2km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 2.4 7km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  8. 1.7 7km NE of Aguanga, CA
  9. 1.7 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  10. 1.5 10km NE of Aguanga, CA
  11. 1.9 3km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  12. 2.1 11km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  13. 1.6 2km NE of Banning, CA
  14. 1.8 9km NNW of Anza, CA
  15. 1.8 4km SE of Home Gardens, 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 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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