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M 1.7ml

8km NNW of Cabazon, CA

· 19 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 81 kmOrange County 95 kmSan Diego County 106 kmSan Bernardino County 114 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
19 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 1209 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 33.9793, -116.8210. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 81 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 95 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orange County
San Diego County, CA 106 km (66 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
San Bernardino County, CA 114 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

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

  1. 1.7 7km N of Yucaipa, CA
  2. 1.5 7km SSW of Cabazon, CA
  3. 1.5 9 km N of Big Bear City, CA
  4. 2.1 6km SW of Idyllwild, CA
  5. 1.8 5km S of Idyllwild, CA
  6. 1.8 11km NNE of Cabazon, CA
  7. 2.4 7km S of Idyllwild, CA
  8. 1.7 5km SE of Beaumont, CA
  9. 1.5 7km NW of Idyllwild, CA
  10. 1.6 5km NE of Beaumont, CA
  11. 1.6 14km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  12. 1.9 6km ENE of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  13. 2.4 3km N of Big Bear City, CA
  14. 1.9 6km S of Redlands, CA
  15. 2.0 10km ENE of Cabazon, 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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