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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

6km SSE of Mentone, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 72 kmLos Angeles County 107 kmRiverside County 108 kmSan Diego County 114 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
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 72 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2846 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 17 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 5.8 900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 640,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 57× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 34.0130, -117.1180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 72 km (44 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 107 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 108 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 127 km (79 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

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

  1. 2.1 6km SSE of Mentone, CA
  2. 3.4 8km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  3. 1.8 6km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  4. 1.6 5km NNE of Banning, CA
  5. 1.7 4km W of Cabazon, CA
  6. 1.7 2km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 1.8 6km WSW of Morongo Valley, CA
  8. 1.5 6km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  9. 1.6 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 3.2 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  11. 3.6 8km ESE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  12. 1.7 3km SW of San Bernardino, CA
  13. 1.9 4km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  14. 1.6 8km SSE of Big Bear City, CA
  15. 1.9 14km NNE of Cabazon, 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 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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