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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

12km SE of Running Springs, CA

· 6.8 km deep · released about 41 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 87 kmRiverside County 104 kmSan Bernardino County 110 kmLos Angeles County 115 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 2.1 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Orange County, 87 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3387 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 41 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 370,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 23× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 41 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 34.1382, -117.0110. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 104 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 110 km (69 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Los Angeles County, CA 115 km (72 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1km SSW of Redlands, CA
  2. 1.7 11km N of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.6 5km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  4. 1.6 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 2.4 5km SSW of Morongo Valley, CA
  6. 2.9 4km SE of Grand Terrace, CA
  7. 1.8 3km N of Colton, CA
  8. 2.2 4km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  9. 2.0 7km SSE of Redlands, CA
  10. 1.7 8km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  11. 1.7 22km NW of Yucca Valley, CA
  12. 2.3 9km E of Running Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 8km WSW of Calimesa, CA
  14. 3.5 9km NNW of Banning, CA
  15. 1.6 12km NNE of Cabazon, 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 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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