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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6km NE of Nuevo, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 65 kmSan Diego County 96 kmRiverside County 102 kmLos Angeles County 114 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
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 65 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 33.8422, -117.1013. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 65 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 96 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 102 km (64 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Los Angeles County, CA 114 km (71 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 141 km (88 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

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

  1. 1.6 3km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 2.4 6km SSW of Big Bear City, CA
  3. 1.7 10km NNE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  4. 1.8 1km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 1.5 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.8 4km W of Muscoy, CA
  7. 1.5 3km NNE of Fontana, CA
  8. 1.9 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  9. 1.6 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  10. 1.8 6km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
  11. 1.7 7km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  12. 1.9 9km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  13. 1.9 6km ESE of Ontario, CA
  14. 1.7 4km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  15. 1.9 8km NE of Aguanga, 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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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