Earthquake near Home Gardens, CA

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 15 km (9 mi) from the epicentre. In Home Gardens, 4 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Likely felt in: Corona 7 km, intensity II · Norco 10 km, intensity II · Pedley 14 km, intensity II · Eastvale 14 km, intensity II · Riverside 14 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 23 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 660,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 470,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 42× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 23 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 12 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.7 The 1918 San Jacinto, California Earthquake · 49 km ESE of this epicentre Apr 21, 1918
2. 6.2 3 km SE of San Bernardino, California · 34 km NE of this epicentre Jul 23, 1923
3. 6.0 The 1910 Lake Elsinore, California Earthquake · 19 km SSE of this epicentre May 15, 1910
4. 5.5 The 1990 Upland, California Earthquake · 38 km NNW of this epicentre Feb 28, 1990
5. 5.4 5km S of Chino Hills, CA · 28 km WNW of this epicentre Jul 29, 2008

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 33.8522, -117.4913. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.3 4km N of Norco, CA 00:45 UTC
2. 1.9 4km NNE of Moreno Valley, CA 21:54 UTC
3. 1.5 5km NNW of Lake Elsinore, CA 18:00 UTC
4. 1.9 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 18:56 UTC
5. 1.7 5km WNW of Fontana, CA 03:48 UTC
6. 1.8 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 13:51 UTC
7. 3.1 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 12:47 UTC
8. 1.7 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 18:15 UTC
9. 1.6 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 11:32 UTC
10. 1.6 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 11:29 UTC
11. 2.1 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 10:50 UTC
12. 1.9 13km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 10:19 UTC
13. 4.0 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA 10:09 UTC
14. 2.5 3km NW of Lytle Creek, CA 19:30 UTC
15. 1.9 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA 17:16 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:48 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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