Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 0.9ml
Earthquake near Garnet, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Garnet in the 24 hours to 2:12 am PST (10:12 UTC). The last one was M 3.6, 60 km (37 mi) SSW, at 12:31 am PDT on 19 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 165 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Garnet
This page: a magnitude 0.9 earthquake was recorded 7 km (5 mi) west-southwest of Garnet, CA, at 12:00 am PDT on 27 September 2026 (07:00 UTC), 12 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 1 km S of Garnet, CA
10 km (6 mi) NW of Cathedral City, CA · 132 km (82 mi) NNE of San Diego, CA
- When
- 12:00 am PDT on 27 September 2026 ()
- Where
- 7 km (5 mi) west-southwest of Garnet, CA · earthquakes near Garnet
- Magnitude
- M 0.9 (ml)
- Depth
- 12 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Riverside County, 53 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- San Andreas fault, under 1 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 46 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs, Desert Edge, Cathedral City, Thousand Palms, Morongo Valley.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 0.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.9 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 15,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1,400× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 0.9 about 0.7 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.9 on 2026-01-20 — about 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 34 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 7.3 The 1992 Landers, California Earthquake · 36 km NNE of this epicentre
- 6.7 The 1918 San Jacinto, California Earthquake · 42 km WSW of this epicentre
- 6.3 The 1992 Big Bear, California Earthquake · 43 km NW of this epicentre
- 6.1 The 1992 Joshua Tree, California Earthquake · 22 km ENE of this epicentre
- 6.0 The 1948 Desert Hot Springs, California Earthquake · 22 km ENE of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 33.8925, -116.5465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside County, CA | 53 km (33 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Riverside County |
| San Diego County, CA | 99 km (61 mi) | SSW | earthquakes near San Diego County |
| San Bernardino County, CA | 112 km (70 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near San Bernardino County |
| Orange County, CA | 116 km (72 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Orange County |
| Imperial County, CA | 146 km (90 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Imperial County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
55 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 0.8 4 km W of Garnet, CA
- 0.6 7 km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
- 0.9 22 km ESE of Anza, CA
- 0.8 4 km WNW of Anza, CA
- 0.6 6 km SW of Idyllwild, CA
- 0.6 7 km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
- 0.7 8 km SW of Anza, CA
- 0.7 5 km SW of Idyllwild, CA
- 0.6 4 km S of Idyllwild, CA
- 0.4 4 km NNW of Anza, CA
- 1.1 7 km ENE of Yucaipa, CA
- 0.8 8 km SE of Valle Vista, CA
- 0.7 7 km SW of Beaumont, CA
- 0.8 2 km E of San Jacinto, CA
- 0.7 8 km WNW of Anza, 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.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | 1 km SSE of Garnet, CA | 1 km S of Garnet, CA | |
| longitude | -116.54 | -116.55 | |
| latitude | 33.89 | 33.89 | |
| depth | 11.7 | 12.2 | |
| magnitude | 1.23 | 0.91 |
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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