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M 2.9ml

11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 32 kmLos Angeles County 94 kmSan Diego County 97 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Orange County, 32 km W
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. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 650 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 33.7018, -117.4352. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 32 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 97 km (60 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 2.9 9km WSW of Corona, CA
  2. 1.7 9km WSW of Corona, CA
  3. 2.4 2km ENE of Colton, CA
  4. 1.7 2km NE of Colton, CA
  5. 1.7 3km SSE of Redlands, CA
  6. 2.9 3km ENE of Brea, CA
  7. 1.6 3km WNW of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 3.2 11km ENE of North Tustin, CA
  9. 1.7 3km WNW of Loma Linda, CA
  10. 1.6 1km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  11. 2.1 3km NE of Brea, CA
  12. 1.5 4km ENE of Brea, CA
  13. 1.6 3km NNW of Bloomington, CA
  14. 3.2 2km ENE of Brea, CA
  15. 2.2 2km S of Loma Linda, 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.

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