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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3km N of Murrieta, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 53 kmSan Diego County 74 kmRiverside County 113 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 53 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1236 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 33.5798, -117.2125. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 53 km (33 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 113 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Los Angeles County, CA 119 km (74 mi) SE 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

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

  1. 1.8 3km SSW of Anza, CA
  2. 3.0 11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA
  3. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  4. 1.5 12km W of Anza, CA
  5. 1.5 5 km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.9 4km NW of Banning, CA
  7. 2.0 5km SW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  8. 1.8 10km ENE of Pala, CA
  9. 2.7 5km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  10. 2.2 5km SSE of Hemet, CA
  11. 1.6 6km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  12. 1.5 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  13. 1.5 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  14. 2.0 10km S of Idyllwild, CA
  15. 2.0 5km SW of Palomar Observatory, 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 2018-08-15 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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