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M 1.9ml

5km SSW of Pinon Hills, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 58 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2179 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 34.3970, -117.6735. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 58 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 81 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County
Kern County, CA 143 km (89 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kern County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 5km W of Devore, CA
  2. 2.2 4km ESE of Altadena, CA
  3. 2.8 6km SSW of Pearblossom, CA
  4. 2.4 8km NNW of Fontana, CA
  5. 1.5 5km SSE of Crestline, CA
  6. 1.6 2km NNW of Fontana, CA
  7. 1.6 4km NNW of Fontana, CA
  8. 1.6 6km SSW of Pearblossom, CA
  9. 1.6 2km SE of Muscoy, CA
  10. 2.5 15km WNW of Adelanto, CA
  11. 2.3 4km WNW of Devore, CA
  12. 2.2 4km WNW of Devore, CA
  13. 1.7 7km SSW of Pearblossom, CA
  14. 1.5 6km S of Littlerock, CA
  15. 3.1 7km SSE of Littlerock, 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 2018-08-29 — it released about 6,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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