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M 1.8ml

6km ENE of Beaumont, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 85 kmRiverside County 89 kmSan Diego County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 85 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 33.9570, -116.9257. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 89 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 105 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego 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

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

  1. 1.7 6km SSE of Calimesa, CA
  2. 1.7 11km ESE of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.8 12km SSE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  4. 2.5 8km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 9km N of Anza, CA
  6. 1.6 8km NNW of Anza, CA
  7. 1.5 10km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  8. 1.8 14km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  9. 1.9 14km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  10. 1.8 14km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  11. 1.7 18km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  12. 2.2 11km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  13. 2.3 10km SSW of Valle Vista, CA
  14. 1.5 3km SSE of Garnet, CA
  15. 1.8 10km WNW of Big Bear Lake, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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