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M 1.7ml

15km ENE of Thousand Palms, CA

· 4.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 28 kmSan Diego County 108 kmSan Bernardino County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 28 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2739 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× 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 33.8850, -116.2457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 28 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 108 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Imperial County, CA 125 km (78 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

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

  1. 2.5 8km ENE of Indio, CA
  2. 2.2 8km ENE of Indio, CA
  3. 2.4 23km NE of Thermal, CA
  4. 1.9 14km NE of Thousand Palms, CA
  5. 1.5 16km ESE of Anza, CA
  6. 1.6 19km SW of La Quinta, CA
  7. 1.6 15km ESE of Anza, CA
  8. 1.6 8km SE of Idyllwild, CA
  9. 2.0 8km S of Idyllwild, CA
  10. 2.1 33km NNE of North Shore, CA
  11. 1.6 33km NNE of North Shore, CA
  12. 2.0 21km ESE of Anza, CA
  13. 1.5 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  14. 3.0 11km ENE of Cabazon, CA
  15. 2.2 8km SSW of Joshua Tree, 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.

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