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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

5km N of Moreno Valley, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 61 kmLos Angeles County 99 kmSan Diego County 113 kmRiverside County 116 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 61 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 976 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 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 33.9700, -117.2242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 99 km (61 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 113 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 116 km (72 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 137 km (85 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

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

  1. 2.6 5km NE of Beaumont, CA
  2. 1.7 8km NNW of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.9 9km SSW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  4. 2.2 4km E of Yucaipa, CA
  5. 1.5 13km NNE of Banning, CA
  6. 1.5 9km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  7. 1.5 1km SW of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.6 4km WNW of Devore, CA
  9. 2.2 9km W of Big Bear Lake, CA
  10. 1.7 7km NNE of Fontana, CA
  11. 2.0 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  12. 1.5 9km NNE of Banning, CA
  13. 2.3 8km NNE of Banning, CA
  14. 1.7 2km E of San Jacinto, CA
  15. 1.6 5km NNW of Upland, 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 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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