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quarry blast · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.6ml

7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA

· 2.3 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 31 kmLos Angeles County 83 kmSan Diego County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.3 km below the surface
Felt
1 report
Nearest
Orange County, 31 km WSW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1382 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 33.8232, -117.4873. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 31 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 83 km (51 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 5km S of Redlands, CA
  2. 1.6 7km S of Redlands, CA
  3. 1.8 3km SSW of Newport Beach, CA
  4. 1.8 3km SW of Newport Beach, CA
  5. 1.5 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.6 10km E of Murrieta Hot Springs, CA
  7. 1.8 6km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  8. 1.6 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  9. 2.1 2km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  10. 1.5 2km WSW of Devore, CA
  11. 1.8 2km N of Fontana, CA
  12. 2.0 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  13. 1.6 6km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  14. 1.6 3km NNW of Fontana, CA
  15. 1.8 7km N of Yorba 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 4.4 on 2018-08-29 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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