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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

3km NE of Moreno Valley, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 61 kmLos Angeles County 102 kmSan Diego County 109 kmRiverside County 113 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, 61 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2561 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 9.3 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 33.9418, -117.2012. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 102 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 109 km (68 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 113 km (70 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Bernardino County, CA 138 km (86 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

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

  1. 2.5 6km SE of Big Bear Lake, CA
  2. 1.6 3 km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  3. 1.7 5km SSW of Redlands, CA
  4. 2.4 11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA
  5. 2.9 11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA
  6. 1.5 5km NNE of Banning, CA
  7. 1.8 2km ESE of Beaumont, CA
  8. 1.7 3km NNW of Mira Loma, CA
  9. 1.7 5km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.7 4km NE of Banning, CA
  11. 1.5 8km S of Cabazon, CA
  12. 2.6 11km WNW of Lake Elsinore, CA
  13. 1.8 8km N of Big Bear Lake, CA
  14. 1.5 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  15. 1.8 2km NW 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 4.5 on 2018-05-08 — it released about 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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