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M 1.8ml

6km ENE of Barstow, CA

· 5.5 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 72 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2239 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 34.9270, -116.9618. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 72 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Los Angeles County, CA 144 km (90 mi) NE 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

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

  1. 1.7 18km S of Fort Irwin, CA
  2. 2.0 23km NNE of Barstow, CA
  3. 2.0 35km SSE of Fort Irwin, CA
  4. 1.8 16km NNE of Barstow, CA
  5. 1.6 22km NNE of Barstow, CA
  6. 2.1 39km SSE of Fort Irwin, CA
  7. 2.6 36km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  8. 2.6 20km S of Fort Irwin, CA
  9. 1.8 20km NNW of Barstow, CA
  10. 2.2 12km NNE of Barstow, CA
  11. 1.8 28km E of Barstow, CA
  12. 1.8 38km SSE of Fort Irwin, CA
  13. 1.8 33km S of Fort Irwin, CA
  14. 1.6 20km NNW of Barstow, CA
  15. 1.6 20km 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 4.6 on 2020-01-25 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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