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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

14km ESE of Anza, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 54 kmSan Diego County 59 kmOrange County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 54 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3736 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 6.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 33.5140, -116.5252. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 54 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orange County
Imperial County, CA 121 km (75 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  2. 1.8 14km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  3. 2.7 10km S of Idyllwild, CA
  4. 1.6 3km WSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 10km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 3.4 11km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  7. 1.9 4km SSE of Palomar Observatory, CA
  8. 1.9 3km SW of Anza, CA
  9. 1.9 4km SSW of Idyllwild, CA
  10. 1.9 10km NNW of Anza, CA
  11. 1.6 23km ESE of Anza, CA
  12. 3.2 9km SE of Lake Henshaw, CA
  13. 1.6 3km W of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 1.7 3km WSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  15. 2.0 14km ESE of Anza, 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 270,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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