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M 2.6ml

13km WSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA

· 9.6 km deep · released about 210 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 49 kmRiverside County 73 kmImperial County 85 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 49 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2896 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 210 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 72,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 51,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 210 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 33.1160, -116.2665. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 49 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 73 km (45 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Imperial County, CA 85 km (53 mi) W of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8km SSE of Borrego Springs, CA
  2. 1.9 12km E of Julian, CA
  3. 1.5 26km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  4. 2.2 18km ESE of Anza, CA
  5. 1.9 13km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 2.6 7km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA
  7. 1.6 12km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 2.5 8km NW of Julian, CA
  9. 1.6 5km WSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 1.6 16km ESE of Julian, CA
  11. 1.5 26km ENE of Pine Valley, CA
  12. 1.7 17km ESE of Anza, CA
  13. 2.4 10km ENE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  14. 1.9 10km NE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  15. 2.3 10km NE of Ocotillo Wells, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 8,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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