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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA

· 7.4 km deep · released about 550 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 51 kmSan Bernardino County 98 kmSan Diego County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
48 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Riverside County, 51 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1527 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 48 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 550 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 28,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 550 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 34.0068, -116.4455. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 114 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 147 km (92 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 1km NE of Cabazon, CA
  2. 1.8 11km WSW of Morongo Valley, CA
  3. 2.8 36km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  4. 2.5 10km S of Idyllwild, CA
  5. 2.0 34km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  6. 2.1 11km NE of Indio, CA
  7. 1.6 4km ESE of Yucca Valley, CA
  8. 1.7 6km S of Yucca Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 6km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  10. 2.4 11km NE of Cabazon, CA
  11. 1.6 12km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  12. 1.8 10km SSE of Idyllwild, CA
  13. 1.9 10km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  14. 1.7 16km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  15. 2.0 16km NE of Coachella, 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 300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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