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M 1.9ml

24km ENE of Barstow, CA

· 0.6 km deep · released about 23 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 59 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2448 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 23 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 660,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 470,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 42× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 23 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 35.0070, -116.7992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 59 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 22km ENE of Barstow, CA
  2. 1.6 35km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  3. 1.8 6km ENE of Barstow, CA
  4. 1.5 17km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  5. 2.1 36km WSW of Ludlow, CA
  6. 2.6 25km WNW of Ludlow, CA
  7. 1.5 37km WSW of Ludlow, CA
  8. 1.6 32km E of Barstow, CA
  9. 2.0 17km S of Fort Irwin, CA
  10. 1.7 30 km NW of Lenwood, California
  11. 3.0 35km ENE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 36km ENE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  13. 1.8 39km NNW of Barstow, CA
  14. 1.8 22km NNE of Barstow, CA
  15. 1.5 40km NNW of Barstow, 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 4.3 on 2016-02-20 — it released about 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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