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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5km NW of Idyllwild, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 70 kmSan Diego County 83 kmOrange County 95 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 70 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3421 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 33.7668, -116.7575. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 70 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 83 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km NE of Aguanga, California
  2. 2.6 7 km NE of Aguanga, California
  3. 3.4 7 km NE of Aguanga, California
  4. 1.6 8 km NE of Aguanga, California
  5. 2.1 7 km NE of Aguanga, California
  6. 2.5 Southern California
  7. 1.6 15 km SSW of Alpine Village, California
  8. 2.2 8 km ESE of Oak Glen, California
  9. 2.1 0 km WNW of Cherry Valley, California
  10. 2.0 6 km N of Indio Hills, California
  11. 1.8 8km E of Palomar Observatory, CA
  12. 1.8 6km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
  13. 1.9 8km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  14. 1.9 5km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  15. 1.6 6km NE of Anza, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 220,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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