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M 1.7ml

4km E of Rancho Cucamonga, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Orange County 55 kmLos Angeles County 67 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 55 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1326 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× 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 34.1290, -117.5368. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 55 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 67 km (42 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 7 km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 1.8 12km NE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  3. 1.6 1km E of Redlands, CA
  4. 1.5 8km NNE of Yucaipa, CA
  5. 1.8 10km ENE of Trabuco Canyon, CA
  6. 2.0 3km ENE of Colton, CA
  7. 2.0 4 km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  8. 1.8 3 km ENE of Colton, CA
  9. 1.5 2 km SSW of Brea, CA
  10. 1.5 2km ESE of Home Gardens, CA
  11. 1.5 7km SSW of Lytle Creek, CA
  12. 2.0 0km SSW of South El Monte, CA
  13. 1.7 6km SSW of Redlands, CA
  14. 1.9 6 km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  15. 1.7 2km SSE of Loma Linda, 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 9,100 times the energy of this one.

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

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