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M 1.6ml

11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 32 kmLos Angeles County 94 kmSan Diego County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 32 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2186 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 33.7078, -117.4350. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 32 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 98 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego 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. 1.5 4km WSW of Calimesa, CA
  2. 1.7 1km W of Brea, CA
  3. 1.6 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  4. 1.8 6km S of Mentone, CA
  5. 1.8 4km NNW of San Jacinto, CA
  6. 1.6 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 2.3 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 2.1 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  9. 1.5 2km E of Loma Linda, CA
  10. 1.9 6km ENE of Villa Park, CA
  11. 1.8 4km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  12. 2.3 6km S of Beaumont, CA
  13. 1.5 6km SSW of Redlands, CA
  14. 1.6 5km SSW of Redlands, CA
  15. 1.8 1km ENE of Loma Linda, 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.

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