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M 1.6ml

14km S of Big Bear Lake, CA

· 6.2 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 93 kmRiverside County 95 kmSan Bernardino County 107 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 93 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3695 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 34.1183, -116.9232. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 93 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 107 km (66 mi) SW 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

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

  1. 1.6 4km SSW of Lucerne Valley, CA
  2. 2.3 2km SSE of Mentone, CA
  3. 1.9 2km NW of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  4. 2.5 2km NW of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  5. 1.5 7km S of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 3.7 5km S of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 1.7 6km S of Redlands, CA
  8. 1.8 12km N of Banning, CA
  9. 1.9 7km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  10. 2.5 7km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  11. 1.8 3km ENE of Banning, CA
  12. 1.8 17km W of Morongo Valley, CA
  13. 2.2 5km NW of Cabazon, CA
  14. 1.7 7km NNE of Banning, CA
  15. 1.7 4km WSW of Calimesa, 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 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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