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M 1.7ml

2km SSE of Wrightwood, CA

· 9.1 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 61 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2428 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 12 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 34.3477, -117.6242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 76 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County
Kern County, CA 150 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7km NNE of Fontana, CA
  2. 1.5 3km SSW of Running Springs, CA
  3. 2.1 4km SW of Lytle Creek, CA
  4. 1.7 0km NW of Loma Linda, CA
  5. 2.3 9km NE of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  6. 2.3 8km WSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  7. 2.3 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.6 6km SSE of Ontario, CA
  9. 1.8 6km SE of Ontario, CA
  10. 2.2 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  11. 2.0 3km NNW of Fontana, CA
  12. 1.5 5km S of Lytle Creek, CA
  13. 1.8 5km S of Lytle Creek, CA
  14. 2.5 2km NNE of Lake Arrowhead, CA
  15. 1.5 5km NE of Bradbury, 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 2018-08-29 — it released about 9,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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