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M 1.6ml

6km E of Calimesa, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 81 kmRiverside County 96 kmSan Diego County 110 kmLos Angeles County 119 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
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 81 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1637 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 33.9932, -116.9885. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 81 km (50 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 96 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 119 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino 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. 2.3 10km SSW of Valle Vista, CA
  2. 1.5 3km SSE of Garnet, CA
  3. 1.8 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  4. 1.5 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  5. 2.3 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  6. 1.6 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  7. 1.6 1km NE of Mira Loma, CA
  8. 1.6 6km NW of Glen Avon, CA
  9. 2.5 9km SSE of Running Springs, CA
  10. 1.7 5km N of Lake Elsinore, CA
  11. 1.5 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  12. 1.5 4km SSE of Beaumont, CA
  13. 1.5 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 1.9 3km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
  15. 2.6 10km SW of Morongo Valley, 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 21,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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