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M 1.9ml

10km S of Joshua Tree, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 22 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 46 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2491 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 22 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 5.8 680,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 480,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 43× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 22 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 34.0448, -116.3250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 46 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 91 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 121 km (75 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 143 km (89 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Imperial 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. 1.9 9km NNE of Banning, CA
  2. 2.0 3km E of Yucca Valley, CA
  3. 2.2 13km NNE of Thousand Palms, CA
  4. 2.4 9km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  5. 1.9 9km ENE of Thousand Palms, CA
  6. 1.5 8km ENE of Thousand Palms, CA
  7. 1.8 14km ENE of Indio, CA
  8. 1.6 9km NE of Indio, CA
  9. 2.0 9km NE of Indio, CA
  10. 2.3 9km NE of Indio, CA
  11. 2.4 26km NNW of Twentynine Palms, CA
  12. 2.2 13km NNE of Indio, CA
  13. 1.5 6km NNW of Yucca Valley, CA
  14. 2.4 12km ENE of Thermal, CA
  15. 1.5 5 km 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 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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