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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

4km ENE of Calimesa, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 1,200 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 79 kmRiverside County 99 kmSan Diego County 111 kmLos Angeles County 116 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
15 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 79 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2701 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 15 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,200 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 13,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 9,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,200 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.2× 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 34.0037, -117.0195. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 99 km (61 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 116 km (72 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 122 km (76 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 2.2 2km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  3. 1.5 5km SSE of Hemet, CA
  4. 3.0 6km E of Lucerne Valley, CA
  5. 1.5 2km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.8 10km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  7. 2.4 6km E of Lucerne Valley, CA
  8. 2.7 1km SSW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  9. 1.6 1km SSW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  10. 1.7 1km SSW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  11. 1.9 8km NE of Moreno Valley, CA
  12. 2.1 9km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  13. 1.8 5km N of Fontana, CA
  14. 1.7 4km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  15. 1.9 0km NE of Loma Linda, 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 140 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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