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M 1.8ml

10km ENE of Barstow, CA

· 5.5 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 68 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3729 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 34.9347, -116.9250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 68 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 16km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  2. 1.8 11km ENE of Apple Valley, CA
  3. 1.8 17km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  4. 1.5 20km E of Boron, CA
  5. 3.4 20km E of Boron, CA
  6. 2.4 26km SE of Fort Irwin, CA
  7. 2.0 36km WNW of Ludlow, CA
  8. 1.8 40km E of Johannesburg, CA
  9. 1.9 34km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  10. 1.6 16km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  11. 1.6 34 km S of Fort Irwin, California
  12. 3.0 37 km ENE of Lucerne Valley, California
  13. 1.9 37 km ENE of Lucerne Valley, California
  14. 1.5 16 km NNE of Apple Valley, California
  15. 1.7 15 km NNE of Apple Valley, California

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 4.3 on 2016-02-20 — it released about 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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