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M 1.7ml

10km NNW of Big Bear Lake, CA

· 9.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Bernardino County 93 kmOrange County 103 kmRiverside County 110 kmLos Angeles County 120 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
9.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 93 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 34.3178, -116.9657. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 93 km (58 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Orange County, CA 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Riverside County, CA 110 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Los Angeles County, CA 120 km (74 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1km NNW of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  2. 3.5 2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  3. 1.5 1km NW of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  4. 1.6 1km NW of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  5. 2.8 12km N of Banning, CA
  6. 3.6 2km ESE of Loma Linda, CA
  7. 2.4 2km SE of Big Bear City, CA
  8. 1.6 9km NNE of Banning, CA
  9. 1.7 17km NNE of Apple Valley, CA
  10. 2.5 6km NNE of Lytle Creek, CA
  11. 1.9 4km NW of Beaumont, CA
  12. 2.0 35km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  13. 2.0 4km ESE of Yucaipa, CA
  14. 1.7 1km SSE of Loma Linda, CA
  15. 3.1 5km NE of Yucaipa, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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