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M 1.7ml

15km NW of Ludlow, CA

· 4.3 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Bernardino County, 11 km ENE
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. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 10 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 1,500,000× 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 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 34.8058, -116.2822. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Bernardino County, CA 11 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Bernardino County
Riverside County, CA 122 km (76 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 22km NW of Ludlow, CA
  2. 3.5 23km NW of Ludlow, CA
  3. 2.1 24km W of Ludlow, CA
  4. 1.8 27km NW of Ludlow, CA
  5. 1.6 32km N of Yucca Valley, CA
  6. 2.8 19km SSW of Ludlow, CA
  7. 1.8 36km ENE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  8. 2.3 19km W of Ludlow, CA
  9. 1.6 35km ENE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  10. 2.1 40km SW of Ludlow, CA
  11. 1.9 19km SSW of Ludlow, CA
  12. 1.6 22km ENE of Barstow, CA
  13. 1.6 35km NE of Lucerne Valley, CA
  14. 2.1 36km WSW of Ludlow, CA
  15. 2.6 25km WNW of Ludlow, 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 4.3 on 2016-02-20 — it released about 8,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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