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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

2km NNE of Lake Arrowhead, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 85 kmLos Angeles County 100 kmSan Bernardino County 113 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 85 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3722 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 5.6 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 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 34.2618, -117.1797. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 100 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 113 km (70 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Riverside County, CA 124 km (77 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside 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. 3.1 13km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  2. 1.5 3km ENE of Banning, CA
  3. 1.5 8km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  4. 1.8 2km SW of Mira Loma, CA
  5. 2.0 7km SSW of Devore, CA
  6. 1.7 7km SSW of Devore, CA
  7. 1.6 2km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.7 10km NNW of Banning, CA
  9. 2.4 2km NE of Colton, CA
  10. 1.8 5km NW of Big Bear City, CA
  11. 1.7 10km E of Lucerne Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 12km SSE of Big Bear City, CA
  13. 1.6 4km NNW of Glen Avon, CA
  14. 1.6 13km W of Morongo Valley, CA
  15. 1.6 4km N of Big Bear City, 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 4.4 on 2016-01-06 — it released about 21,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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