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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5km N of Lake Elsinore, CA

· -0.5 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 41 kmSan Diego County 93 kmLos Angeles County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 41 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1971 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 9 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 9 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 33.7132, -117.3368. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 41 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 93 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ESE 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

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

  1. 1.8 4km NW of Villa Park, CA
  2. 1.9 4km NW of Villa Park, CA
  3. 1.9 7km ENE of Nuevo, CA
  4. 1.7 7km ENE of Nuevo, CA
  5. 1.8 11km W of Corona, CA
  6. 1.8 4km SW of Redlands, CA
  7. 1.6 3km WSW of Yorba Linda, CA
  8. 1.7 5km SSW of Redlands, CA
  9. 1.8 2km WNW of Murrieta, CA
  10. 2.4 3km NW of Aguanga, CA
  11. 1.5 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  12. 1.8 3km E of Anaheim, CA
  13. 1.7 3km E of Anaheim, CA
  14. 2.2 3km WSW of Rubidoux, CA
  15. 1.9 2km SSW of Rancho Cucamonga, 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 4.4 on 2016-01-06 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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