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M 3.2ml

6km N of Big Bear City, CA

· 1.5 km deep · released about 1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Bernardino County 86 kmRiverside County 102 kmOrange County 111 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
1.5 km below the surface
Felt
84 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 86 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3116 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 84 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.1× 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 34.3155, -116.8507. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Riverside County, CA 102 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5km SSE of Banning, CA
  2. 1.6 7km S of Redlands, CA
  3. 1.6 23km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  4. 1.7 4km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 1.8 5km S of Redlands, CA
  6. 1.6 2km N of Colton, CA
  7. 1.9 13km NNE of Banning, CA
  8. 1.7 22km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 3km S of Mentone, CA
  10. 1.6 23km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  11. 1.5 4km N of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.8 1km ENE of Banning, CA
  13. 1.7 3km SE of Mentone, CA
  14. 1.8 9km NNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  15. 2.3 16km NNE of Lucerne Valley, 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 57 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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