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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

12km SW of Big Bear Lake, CA

· 6.5 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 90 kmRiverside County 103 kmSan Bernardino County 108 kmLos Angeles County 117 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 90 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1410 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 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 34.1565, -116.9910. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 90 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 108 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Los Angeles County, CA 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4km N of Cabazon, CA
  2. 2.0 6km N of Beaumont, CA
  3. 2.0 6km N of Fontana, CA
  4. 1.7 9km NNE of Banning, CA
  5. 2.1 5km SE of Redlands, CA
  6. 1.5 3km WNW of Valle Vista, CA
  7. 1.6 3km NNW of Fontana, CA
  8. 1.6 11km WNW of Yucca Valley, CA
  9. 2.1 4km WNW of Devore, CA
  10. 1.8 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  11. 1.5 12km WNW of Morongo Valley, CA
  12. 1.8 11km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  13. 2.1 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  14. 2.3 10km SSE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  15. 1.9 11km SSE of Lucerne 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 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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