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M 2.1ml

14 km NNW of Joshua Tree, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 67 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 877 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 34.2572, -116.3523. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 67 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 68 km (43 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

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

  1. 1.7 13 km WSW of Morongo Valley, CA
  2. 1.7 18 km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  3. 2.4 12 km ENE of Cabazon, CA
  4. 2.2 8 km WSW of Garnet, CA
  5. 2.1 3 km ENE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  6. 2.3 11 km N of Cabazon, CA
  7. 2.7 11 km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  8. 2.4 20 km SSE of Joshua Tree, CA
  9. 1.7 6 km N of Big Bear City, CA
  10. 1.6 18 km SW of Ludlow, CA
  11. 1.9 4 km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  12. 1.9 9 km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  13. 1.9 4 km N of Big Bear City, CA
  14. 2.0 11 km NE of Cabazon, CA
  15. 1.6 36 km N of Yucca Valley, 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 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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