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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6mw

2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA

· 18 km deep · released about 3.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 64 kmLos Angeles County 96 kmRiverside County 119 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 3.6 (mw)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
3231 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 64 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1250 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3231 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 8.2× more

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 34.0388, -117.2387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 96 km (60 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 119 km (74 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 121 km (75 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 133 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

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

  1. 2.4 4 km SSE of Lytle Creek, California
  2. 1.6 3 km ENE of El Cerrito Corona, California
  3. 2.7 9 km SW of Corona, California
  4. 1.7 5 km W of Meadowbrook, California
  5. 2.3 1 km NE of Loma Linda, California
  6. 3.0 2 km W of San Bernardino, California
  7. 2.2 8 km ESE of Oak Glen, California
  8. 2.1 0 km WNW of Cherry Valley, California
  9. 1.9 8km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  10. 1.9 10km NNW of Big Bear City, CA
  11. 2.1 2km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  12. 2.5 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  13. 3.1 2km SSE of Big Bear City, CA
  14. 2.0 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  15. 1.6 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 15 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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