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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

4km W of Banning, CA

· 7.6 km deep · released about 990 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 84 kmRiverside County 88 kmSan Diego County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
111 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Orange County, 84 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1387 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 111 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 990 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 990 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 33.9247, -116.9215. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 88 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 101 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 124 km (77 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 2.6 6km SW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  2. 1.8 12km SW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  3. 1.7 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  4. 2.3 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 2.5 4km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 1.6 9km N of Banning, CA
  7. 1.8 2km E of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.6 6km SSE of Beaumont, CA
  9. 1.5 6km SSE of Banning, CA
  10. 2.2 7km E of Cabazon, CA
  11. 1.8 4km SSE of Banning, CA
  12. 1.8 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  13. 2.2 2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  14. 2.2 9km SSW of Calimesa, CA
  15. 2.0 11km SSW of Idyllwild, 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 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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