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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

5km E of Yucaipa, CA

· 9.1 km deep · released about 210 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 83 kmRiverside County 97 kmSan Diego County 113 kmSan Bernardino County 118 kmLos Angeles County 119 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Orange County, 83 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 712 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 210 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 72,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 51,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 210 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 34.0262, -116.9890. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 83 km (51 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 97 km (60 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 113 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 118 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Los Angeles County, CA 119 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 2km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  2. 1.8 4km S of Morongo Valley, CA
  3. 1.6 8km NNE of Banning, CA
  4. 2.0 5km N of Beaumont, CA
  5. 2.4 5km NE of Cabazon, CA
  6. 2.2 4km WSW of Pedley, CA
  7. 2.0 4km WSW of Pedley, CA
  8. 1.5 4km S of Mira Loma, CA
  9. 2.0 5km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  10. 1.5 3km NNW of Mira Loma, CA
  11. 1.6 3km NNW of Mira Loma, CA
  12. 1.8 22km NW of Yucca Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 6km SSW of Redlands, CA
  14. 1.7 7km ENE of Big Bear City, CA
  15. 1.6 7km NE of Moreno 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 790 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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