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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.7ml

8km S of Palomar Observatory, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 30 kmRiverside County 93 kmOrange County 96 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
12 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Diego County, 30 km SSE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2596 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 33.2862, -116.8478. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 30 km (19 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 93 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 96 km (60 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 10km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  2. 1.7 10km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  3. 2.1 10km S of Idyllwild, CA
  4. 1.6 10km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  5. 1.9 7km NNE of Anza, CA
  6. 1.5 9km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  7. 2.0 10km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 2.0 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  9. 2.3 18km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 1.6 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  11. 1.6 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  12. 1.9 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  13. 1.6 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  14. 2.8 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  15. 2.3 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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