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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

11km N of Cabazon, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 80 kmOrange County 98 kmSan Bernardino County 109 kmSan Diego 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
412 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 80 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2972 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 412 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb 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 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 34.0177, -116.8003. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 98 km (61 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 111 km (69 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

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

  1. 2.2 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  2. 1.6 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  3. 1.7 6km SW of Cabazon, CA
  4. 2.5 7km NNE of Green Acres, CA
  5. 2.1 12km NW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  6. 2.2 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 1.9 6km N of Moreno Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 13km NNE of Thousand Palms, CA
  9. 3.8 13km NNE of Thousand Palms, CA
  10. 1.9 13km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  11. 3.0 12km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.6 8km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  13. 1.9 6km E of Calimesa, CA
  14. 2.9 13km N of Cabazon, CA
  15. 2.5 5km S of Banning, 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 86 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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