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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

11km NW of Big Bear Lake, CA

· 7.6 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Bernardino County 94 kmOrange County 103 kmRiverside County 112 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 94 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2538 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 25 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 38× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 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 34.3212, -116.9807. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 94 km (59 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Orange County, CA 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 112 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside 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

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

  1. 1.8 2km SSW of Devore, CA
  2. 1.5 8km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.7 12km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  4. 1.5 6km SE of Redlands, CA
  5. 2.2 5km SE of Lytle Creek, CA
  6. 1.6 2km ENE of Colton, CA
  7. 3.0 4km ENE of Lytle Creek, CA
  8. 1.7 3km ENE of Colton, CA
  9. 2.4 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  10. 1.9 5km E of Yucaipa, CA
  11. 2.2 12 km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.5 9 km E of Running Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 8km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  14. 1.8 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  15. 1.7 23km N of Yucca 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 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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