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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

3km ENE of Colton, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 64 kmLos Angeles County 91 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 64 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3702 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 34.0800, -117.2813. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 91 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Riverside County, CA 124 km (77 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 126 km (79 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 133 km (82 mi) SW 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

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

  1. 1.8 3km ENE of Banning, CA
  2. 1.8 17km W of Morongo Valley, CA
  3. 2.2 5km NW of Cabazon, CA
  4. 1.7 7km NNE of Banning, CA
  5. 1.7 10km ESE of Yorba Linda, CA
  6. 1.8 7km NW of Glen Avon, CA
  7. 1.7 4km WSW of Calimesa, CA
  8. 2.2 5km SSW of Redlands, CA
  9. 1.5 5km SSW of Redlands, CA
  10. 2.0 12km NNE of Banning, CA
  11. 1.6 14km S of Big Bear Lake, CA
  12. 2.2 14km S of Big Bear Lake, CA
  13. 1.9 9km NW of San Jacinto, CA
  14. 2.2 8km SW of Lytle Creek, CA
  15. 1.9 9km N of Cabazon, 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 4.4 on 2016-01-06 — it released about 9,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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