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M 1.9ml

2km WNW of Beaumont, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 78 kmRiverside County 95 kmSan Diego County 103 kmLos Angeles County 120 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 78 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1482 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 33.9353, -116.9978. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 78 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 103 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Los Angeles County, CA 120 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 127 km (79 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

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

  1. 1.8 2km NW of Cabazon, CA
  2. 1.8 15km NNW of Aguanga, CA
  3. 1.6 9km N of Cabazon, CA
  4. 2.2 8km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  5. 1.9 2km ESE of Colton, CA
  6. 1.9 9km NNW of Big Bear City, CA
  7. 2.0 6km S of Big Bear City, CA
  8. 1.5 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  9. 1.7 9km NNE of Nuevo, CA
  10. 2.2 9km S of Idyllwild, CA
  11. 1.8 7km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  12. 2.1 3km WNW of Beaumont, CA
  13. 1.9 5km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  14. 1.6 5km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  15. 2.2 3km ESE of Loma Linda, 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 9,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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