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M 2.1ml

2km SW of Lake Henshaw, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 23 kmRiverside County 90 kmOrange County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
San Diego County, 23 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2784 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 33.2342, -116.7760. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 23 km (15 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 90 km (56 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orange 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. 2.2 2km SW of Lake Henshaw, CA
  2. 3.0 2km SW of Lake Henshaw, CA
  3. 2.4 17km SW of La Quinta, CA
  4. 1.8 9km S of Borrego Springs, CA
  5. 1.8 17km ESE of Julian, CA
  6. 1.8 8km ENE of Aguanga, CA
  7. 2.3 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  8. 3.1 10km ESE of Anza, CA
  9. 1.7 7km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 2.8 5km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA
  11. 1.5 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  12. 1.7 8km NNW of Julian, CA
  13. 2.2 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 1.8 17km ESE of Julian, CA
  15. 1.6 8km ENE of Aguanga, 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 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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