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M 1.6ml

2km ENE of Colton, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 63 kmLos Angeles County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 63 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2480 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 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 34.0780, -117.2905. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 90 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 125 km (78 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 127 km (79 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 134 km (83 mi) SW 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. 1.5 5km ESE of Ontario, CA
  2. 1.5 4km NW of Lakeland Village, CA
  3. 1.6 3km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  4. 1.8 2km NNW of Beaumont, CA
  5. 1.8 4km NNE of Lytle Creek, CA
  6. 1.6 5km SW of Fontana, CA
  7. 1.8 8km NNW of Big Bear City, CA
  8. 1.6 7 km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  9. 2.0 1km SSE of Colton, CA
  10. 1.6 5km SSW of Banning, CA
  11. 1.7 12km NNE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  12. 1.7 2km SSE of Wrightwood, CA
  13. 1.7 10km ENE of Villa Park, CA
  14. 1.9 8km ESE of Yorba Linda, CA
  15. 1.6 5km SSE of Home Gardens, 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 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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