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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

8km SW of Beaumont, CA

· -0.6 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 73 kmRiverside County 96 kmSan Diego County 97 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
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 73 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1851 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

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 33.8733, -117.0292. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 73 km (45 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 96 km (60 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 97 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 119 km (74 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 134 km (83 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

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

  1. 1.8 4km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 2.1 11km NE of Yucaipa, CA
  3. 1.8 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  4. 1.5 5km N of Lake Elsinore, CA
  5. 1.8 8km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  6. 1.9 7km NNW of Cabazon, CA
  7. 2.2 16km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
  8. 1.8 5km NNW of Glen Avon, CA
  9. 2.1 9km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  10. 2.0 6km SW of Banning, CA
  11. 1.9 9km NNW of Anza, CA
  12. 1.8 13km NNE of Banning, CA
  13. 1.8 9km NNW of Anza, CA
  14. 1.7 10km NNW of Anza, CA
  15. 1.8 10km NNW 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 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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