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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

17km W of Morongo Valley, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 80 kmSan Bernardino County 103 kmOrange County 103 kmSan Diego County 116 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 80 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3645 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 17 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 5.8 900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 640,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 57× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 34.0682, -116.7620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 80 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 103 km (64 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Orange County, CA 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 116 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 11km NE of Running Springs, CA
  2. 2.5 8km N of Big Bear City, CA
  3. 1.6 7km SSE of Idyllwild, CA
  4. 1.7 18km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  5. 1.7 2km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  6. 2.1 4km N of Banning, CA
  7. 1.8 5km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  8. 1.6 10km NNW of Big Bear City, CA
  9. 1.9 11km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  10. 2.1 14km NW of Morongo Valley, CA
  11. 1.8 13km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.9 9km S of Big Bear City, CA
  13. 1.6 5km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  14. 1.5 11km SSW of Lucerne Valley, CA
  15. 2.1 11km SSE of Big Bear Lake, 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 6,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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