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M 3.0ml

6km E of Lucerne Valley, CA

· 2.5 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Bernardino County 81 kmRiverside County 114 kmOrange County 117 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 81 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2797 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 34.4358, -116.8990. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 81 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Riverside County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 117 km (73 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

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

  1. 2.0 17km NW of Morongo Valley, CA
  2. 2.1 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  3. 1.8 19km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  5. 1.8 11km NNE of Running Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 8km NNE of Beaumont, CA
  7. 1.9 35km WSW of Ludlow, CA
  8. 1.8 14km N of Cabazon, CA
  9. 1.7 14km SSE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  10. 1.8 9km NNW of Banning, CA
  11. 1.9 7km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
  12. 2.0 28km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 38km NE of Big Bear City, CA
  15. 2.3 2km WNW of Big Bear City, 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 4.5 on 2018-05-08 — it released about 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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