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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

12km NNE of Cabazon, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 73 kmOrange County 105 kmSan Bernardino County 106 kmSan Diego County 110 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Riverside County, 73 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2556 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 34.0123, -116.7182. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 73 km (45 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego 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. 1.5 13km SW of Cathedral City, CA
  2. 1.9 16km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  3. 1.5 16km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  4. 1.5 7km S of Redlands, CA
  5. 2.0 14km WNW of Anza, CA
  6. 2.4 7km WSW of Calimesa, CA
  7. 1.6 6km E of Cabazon, CA
  8. 2.1 6km E of Cabazon, CA
  9. 3.4 6km E of Cabazon, CA
  10. 1.7 6km ENE of Running Springs, CA
  11. 1.5 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  12. 1.6 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  13. 2.5 6km SE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  14. 1.9 8km N of Anza, CA
  15. 1.7 5km SSW of Redlands, 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 28,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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