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M 3.2ml

6km SW of Idyllwild, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 70 kmSan Diego County 75 kmOrange County 94 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
183 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 70 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1271 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 183 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.2× more

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 33.6998, -116.7613. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 70 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 75 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 94 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 2km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  2. 1.5 7km S of Idyllwild, CA
  3. 1.9 14km S of Big Bear City, CA
  4. 1.6 18km ESE of Anza, CA
  5. 1.6 3km NNW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  6. 2.1 2km ESE of San Jacinto, CA
  7. 1.7 5km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  8. 1.6 6km ENE of Moreno Valley, CA
  9. 2.2 8km ENE of Cabazon, CA
  10. 1.6 5km NW of Palomar Observatory, CA
  11. 1.8 12km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  12. 1.5 12km N of Thousand Palms, CA
  13. 1.7 17km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 1.7 15km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
  15. 1.9 6km SW 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 870 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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