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M 1.9ml

22km WSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 40 kmRiverside County 82 kmImperial County 93 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Diego County, 40 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1602 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 33.0525, -116.3478. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 82 km (51 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Imperial County, CA 93 km (57 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

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

  1. 1.7 12km WSW of Salton City, CA
  2. 1.8 4km NE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  3. 1.9 21km ESE of Julian, CA
  4. 1.6 2km ESE of Lake Henshaw, CA
  5. 2.5 22km NW of Ocotillo, CA
  6. 1.8 10km NNE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  7. 1.9 16km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 2.7 16km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  9. 1.9 13km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 1.8 13km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  11. 1.7 27km ENE of Pine Valley, CA
  12. 1.6 6km SSW of Warner Springs, CA
  13. 1.8 20km ESE of Anza, CA
  14. 1.5 23km ESE of Anza, CA
  15. 1.5 20km SW 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 100,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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