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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

8km NE of Banning, CA

· 18 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 81 kmOrange County 94 kmSan Diego County 107 kmSan Bernardino County 113 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
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 81 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1658 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× 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 33.9860, -116.8273. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 81 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 94 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 107 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 113 km (71 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 1.5 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  2. 2.8 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  3. 1.6 8km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  4. 3.8 7km NE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 7km WNW of Anza, CA
  6. 1.5 4km SSE of Beaumont, CA
  7. 1.9 3km ESE of Valle Vista, CA
  8. 2.6 10km SW of Morongo Valley, CA
  9. 1.7 7km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  10. 2.1 13km WNW of Anza, CA
  11. 2.6 4km SSW of Redlands, CA
  12. 1.5 7km SSE of Banning, CA
  13. 1.7 11km WNW of Garnet, CA
  14. 2.3 6km NNW of Cabazon, CA
  15. 1.6 3km WNW of Beaumont, 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 4.5 on 2018-05-08 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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