Earthquake near Rancho Cucamonga, CA

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 11 km (7 mi) from the epicentre. In Rancho Cucamonga, 12 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: San Antonio Heights, Upland, Claremont, Montclair, La Verne, Ontario.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.5 on 2020-09-19 — about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 9 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.2 3 km SE of San Bernardino, California · 38 km ESE of this epicentre Jul 23, 1923
2. 5.9 The 1987 Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake · 42 km WSW of this epicentre Oct 1, 1987
3. 5.8 The 1991 Sierra Madre, California Earthquake · 32 km WNW of this epicentre Jun 28, 1991
4. 5.5 The 1990 Upland, California Earthquake · 8 km SSW of this epicentre Feb 28, 1990
5. 5.4 5km S of Chino Hills, CA · 30 km SSW of this epicentre Jul 29, 2008

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 34.2017, -117.6540. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.7 7km SSW of Pearblossom, CA 17:21 UTC
2. 1.8 4km SSE of Home Gardens, CA 16:59 UTC
3. 1.5 6km SSW of Redlands, CA 02:02 UTC
4. 1.6 5km SSW of Redlands, CA 08:38 UTC
5. 1.8 1km ENE of Loma Linda, CA 10:01 UTC
6. 1.5 6km S of Littlerock, CA 22:09 UTC
7. 1.8 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA 19:22 UTC
8. 1.8 1km ESE of Loma Linda, CA 02:11 UTC
9. 1.7 2km E of Loma Linda, CA 01:24 UTC
10. 2.9 2km E of Loma Linda, CA 00:56 UTC
11. 3.1 7km SSE of Littlerock, CA 16:52 UTC
12. 2.0 1km ENE of Loma Linda, CA 16:32 UTC
13. 1.6 4km WSW of Pinon Hills, CA 09:34 UTC
14. 1.5 6km NNW of Lytle Creek, CA 05:33 UTC
15. 1.9 3km ESE of Loma Linda, CA 10:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:20 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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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