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M 2.8ml

7km SSW of Cabazon, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 420 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 75 kmOrange County 92 kmSan Diego County 93 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
26 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Riverside County, 75 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2227 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 26 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 420 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 36,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 26,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 420 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 33.8577, -116.8023. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 75 km (47 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 92 km (57 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 93 km (58 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 125 km (78 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 1.8 7km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  2. 1.7 4km WSW of Banning, CA
  3. 1.7 10km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  4. 1.7 5km SE of Redlands, CA
  5. 1.9 3km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 1.5 15km ESE of Anza, CA
  7. 1.5 15km SE of Anza, CA
  8. 1.8 5km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  9. 1.5 8km S of Idyllwild, CA
  10. 1.7 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  11. 1.7 0km ESE of San Jacinto, CA
  12. 1.6 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  13. 2.6 5km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  14. 2.0 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  15. 1.6 5km 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 4.9 on 2020-04-04 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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