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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4ml

2km NE of Colton, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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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 2.4 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Orange County, 63 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3688 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 34.0837, -117.2982. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 90 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 126 km (78 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 134 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

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

  1. 2.9 1km E of Loma Linda, CA
  2. 2.4 1km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  3. 2.0 2km E of Loma Linda, CA
  4. 1.8 4km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  5. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  7. 1.7 6km S of Calimesa, CA
  8. 1.7 10km NE of Running Springs, CA
  9. 1.6 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 2.4 4km N of Loma Linda, CA
  11. 1.9 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 4km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  13. 1.5 2km E of Beaumont, CA
  14. 1.6 4km SSW of Lucerne Valley, CA
  15. 2.3 2km SSE of Mentone, 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 970 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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