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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5km NNE of Running Springs, CA

· 5.4 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 90 kmSan Bernardino County 107 kmLos Angeles County 108 kmRiverside County 115 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 90 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1902 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 34.2467, -117.0850. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 90 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Bernardino County, CA 107 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Los Angeles County, CA 108 km (67 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 115 km (72 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4km ENE of Big Bear City, CA
  2. 1.5 7km ENE of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.6 4km S of Lucerne Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 7km ENE of Cabazon, CA
  5. 1.6 5km NNE of Fontana, CA
  6. 2.6 5km NNE of Fontana, CA
  7. 2.6 5km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.8 4km NE of Beaumont, CA
  9. 1.7 4km SE of Yucaipa, CA
  10. 1.6 4km SW of Highland, CA
  11. 1.9 7km NW of Big Bear City, CA
  12. 1.6 7km NW of Big Bear City, CA
  13. 1.6 8km SW of Beaumont, CA
  14. 1.9 14km NE of Big Bear City, CA
  15. 1.7 5km NNW of Beaumont, 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 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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