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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

4km ENE of Calimesa, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 79 kmRiverside County 98 kmSan Diego County 111 kmLos Angeles County 117 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 79 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3779 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 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 34.0037, -117.0140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 98 km (61 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 122 km (76 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

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

  1. 1.7 10km N of Running Springs, CA
  2. 2.9 14km S of Big Bear Lake, CA
  3. 2.1 8km S of Idyllwild, CA
  4. 2.1 8km S of Idyllwild, CA
  5. 1.9 13km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  6. 2.1 8km SSE of Idyllwild, CA
  7. 1.6 13km N of Cabazon, CA
  8. 1.9 5km SE of Banning, CA
  9. 1.5 7km SE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  10. 1.8 10km NNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  11. 1.9 14km WNW of Anza, CA
  12. 1.5 10km NE of Nuevo, CA
  13. 2.1 3km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  14. 2.2 3km N of Moreno Valley, CA
  15. 1.8 7km SSE of Home Gardens, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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