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M 2.9ml

10km NNE of Phelan, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 720 lb of TNT

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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
10 km below the surface
Felt
122 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 76 km WSW
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. 122 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 720 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 21,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 720 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 34.5078, -117.5250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Kern County, CA 144 km (90 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 1km SW of Devore, CA
  2. 1.6 2km SSW of San Bernardino, CA
  3. 1.8 16 km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  4. 1.7 4km E of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  5. 1.7 2km WNW of Muscoy, CA
  6. 2.1 10km NNE of Running Springs, CA
  7. 1.6 16 km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  8. 2.0 2km SSW of San Bernardino, CA
  9. 1.6 8km WNW of Lytle Creek, CA
  10. 1.5 5km SE of Lytle Creek, CA
  11. 1.8 4km ENE of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  12. 1.5 4km SSE of Lytle Creek, CA
  13. 1.6 8km N of Claremont, CA
  14. 1.6 7km N of Claremont, CA
  15. 2.1 8km N of Claremont, 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 4.4 on 2018-08-29 — 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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