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M 2.6ml

10 km ENE of Desert Hot Springs, CA

· 7.1 km deep · released about 230 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 48 kmSan Bernardino County 96 kmSan Diego County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
18 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 48 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 269 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 18 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 230 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 34.0092, -116.4057. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 96 km (60 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
San Diego County, CA 115 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 145 km (90 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 17 km S of Twentynine Palms, CA
  2. 1.7 6 km WSW of Idyllwild, CA
  3. 2.9 10 km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  4. 1.6 7 km NW of Banning, CA
  5. 1.6 21 km ENE of Coachella, CA
  6. 1.7 3 km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  7. 2.6 7 km ENE of Big Bear City, CA
  8. 2.0 6 km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  9. 1.6 20 km ENE of Coachella, CA
  10. 1.8 20 km ENE of Coachella, CA
  11. 1.9 21 km ENE of Coachella, CA
  12. 1.8 21 km ENE of Coachella, CA
  13. 1.8 3 km SSW of Banning, CA
  14. 2.2 3 km WNW of Cabazon, CA
  15. 1.9 5 km SSE of Banning, 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 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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