21km N of Yucca Valley, CA

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 80,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 57,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.1× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 34.3045, -116.4532. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 28km N of Yucca Valley, CA 15:46 UTC
2. 1.7 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA 21:17 UTC
3. 1.7 38km NE of Big Bear City, CA 02:43 UTC
4. 1.5 9km WNW of Garnet, CA 03:23 UTC
5. 1.8 9km SW of Morongo Valley, CA 18:41 UTC
6. 2.6 9km SW of Morongo Valley, CA 13:08 UTC
7. 2.3 2km WNW of Big Bear City, CA 17:39 UTC
8. 2.4 34km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA 18:42 UTC
9. 1.6 28km N of Yucca Valley, CA 19:56 UTC
10. 2.0 10km NNW of Big Bear Lake, CA 01:33 UTC
11. 2.0 30km N of Yucca Valley, CA 10:50 UTC
12. 1.5 39km NE of Big Bear City, CA 06:13 UTC
13. 1.6 11km NE of Cabazon, CA 14:35 UTC
14. 1.7 23km N of Yucca Valley, CA 03:08 UTC
15. 1.6 23km N of Yucca Valley, CA 02:58 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 08:02 UTC. 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 870 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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