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M 2.1ml

10km S of Idyllwild, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 41 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 67 kmSan Diego County 70 kmOrange County 97 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Riverside County, 67 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1643 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 41 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 370,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 23× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 41 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 33.6473, -116.7243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 67 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 70 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 97 km (61 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  2. 2.8 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  3. 1.6 8km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  4. 3.8 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  5. 1.7 22km ESE of Anza, CA
  6. 1.6 7km WNW of Anza, CA
  7. 1.5 4km SSE of Beaumont, CA
  8. 3.5 2km SSE of Palomar Observatory, CA
  9. 2.6 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  10. 1.9 3km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
  11. 2.4 4km NNW of Lake Henshaw, CA
  12. 1.9 5km NW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  13. 2.6 10km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 7km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  15. 2.1 13km WNW of Anza, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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