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M 1.7ml

5km SSE of Lytle Creek, CA

· 7.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orange County, 67 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1707 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 34.2225, -117.4738. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 67 km (42 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 73 km (45 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Bernardino County, CA 138 km (86 mi) WSW 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

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

  1. 1.5 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  2. 1.7 11km NE of Yucaipa, CA
  3. 2.2 8km SSW of Calimesa, CA
  4. 1.6 11km NW of Big Bear Lake, CA
  5. 1.8 2km NW of Loma Linda, CA
  6. 1.9 3km NE of Yorba Linda, CA
  7. 1.6 2km NNW of Loma Linda, CA
  8. 1.8 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  9. 1.5 2km S of Devore, CA
  10. 1.6 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  11. 3.3 6km E of Ontario, CA
  12. 1.7 7km SSE of Redlands, CA
  13. 1.6 2km SE of Loma Linda, CA
  14. 1.5 6km NE of Running Springs, CA
  15. 2.8 7km S of Redlands, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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