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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4ml

6km E of Cabazon, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 1.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 70 kmSan Diego County 99 kmOrange County 101 kmSan Bernardino 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 3.4 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
388 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Riverside County, 70 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 713 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 388 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.5× 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 33.9155, -116.7265. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 70 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 99 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 116 km (72 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 1.7 8km SSE of Hemet, CA
  2. 1.7 12km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  3. 1.5 6km SE of Redlands, CA
  4. 1.6 9km NE of Aguanga, CA
  5. 1.6 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  6. 1.9 14 km WNW of Anza, CA
  7. 1.7 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  8. 2.4 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  9. 1.9 5km E of Yucaipa, CA
  10. 2.2 12 km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  11. 1.5 9 km E of Running Springs, CA
  12. 1.7 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  13. 1.9 6km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  14. 1.6 8km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  15. 1.8 5km SE 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 50 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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