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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

14km W of Morongo Valley, CA

· 6.8 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 77 kmSan Bernardino County 102 kmOrange County 105 kmSan Diego County 115 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 77 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3174 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 34.0588, -116.7355. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 77 km (48 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 102 km (64 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Orange County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 115 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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. 2.0 16km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  2. 2.6 7km NW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  3. 1.7 3km SE of San Jacinto, CA
  4. 1.7 8km N of Big Bear City, CA
  5. 2.7 3km NNW of Beaumont, CA
  6. 1.8 16km NW of Morongo Valley, CA
  7. 1.8 6km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
  8. 1.9 3km NNW of Beaumont, CA
  9. 1.6 4km SE of San Jacinto, CA
  10. 1.8 11km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
  11. 1.6 4km SE of San Jacinto, CA
  12. 2.2 12km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  13. 1.8 5km SSE of Banning, CA
  14. 1.6 7km S of Redlands, CA
  15. 1.6 23km N of Yucca 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 7,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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