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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

8km W of Garnet, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 61 kmSan Diego County 98 kmOrange County 109 kmSan Bernardino County 115 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
176 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 61 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. 176 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 9,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 33.8927, -116.6305. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 98 km (61 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 109 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 115 km (71 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Imperial County, CA 152 km (94 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  2. 2.0 6km NE of Aguanga, CA
  3. 1.9 18km ESE of Anza, CA
  4. 2.1 10km N of Cabazon, CA
  5. 1.9 10km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  6. 1.7 15km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  7. 1.6 13km NE of Yucaipa, CA
  8. 1.9 6km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  9. 1.7 13km ESE of Anza, CA
  10. 2.2 6km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  11. 1.6 11km NE of Indio, CA
  12. 1.9 6km WNW of Anza, CA
  13. 1.7 3km SE of Yucca Valley, CA
  14. 1.6 16km N of Indio, CA
  15. 2.9 16km NW of Morongo Valley, 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 150 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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