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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

4km SE of Loma Linda, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 400 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 64 kmLos Angeles County 97 kmRiverside County 118 kmSan Diego County 119 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
16 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Orange County, 64 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3669 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 16 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 400 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 27,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 400 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 34.0250, -117.2305. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 97 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 118 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 119 km (74 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 133 km (83 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

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

  1. 1.5 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 1.6 12km NE of Yucaipa, CA
  3. 2.9 1km E of Loma Linda, CA
  4. 2.1 16km NW of Morongo Valley, CA
  5. 2.4 1km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 1.7 13km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  7. 2.0 2km E of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.8 4km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  9. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  11. 1.7 6km S of Calimesa, CA
  12. 1.7 10km NE of Running Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 2.4 4km N of Loma Linda, CA
  15. 1.9 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, 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 290 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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