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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

3km SE of San Jacinto, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 78 kmSan Diego County 84 kmRiverside County 87 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Orange County, 78 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1292 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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 16 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 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 33.7635, -116.9388. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 78 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 84 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 87 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside 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. 1.5 6km NNW of Cabazon, CA
  2. 2.6 4km SSW of Anza, CA
  3. 1.5 2km NE of Loma Linda, CA
  4. 1.5 0km SSW of Calimesa, CA
  5. 1.6 6km SSE of Moreno Valley, CA
  6. 1.8 4km SW of Redlands, CA
  7. 2.6 3km NW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  8. 2.0 9km N of Banning, CA
  9. 1.5 17km ESE of Anza, CA
  10. 1.7 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  11. 1.8 2km WSW of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.8 5km N of Moreno Valley, CA
  13. 2.0 5km NW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  14. 1.9 9km SSW of Wildomar, CA
  15. 2.4 15km WNW 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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