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M 1.7ml

12km SW of Puebla, B.C., MX

· 11 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Imperial County, 62 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 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 32.4905, -115.4465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 62 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Imperial 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. 1.9 9km ENE of Mexicali, B.C., MX
  2. 1.9 10km N of Delta, B.C., MX
  3. 2.3 10km ENE of Imperial, CA
  4. 1.5 8km WSW of Holtville, CA
  5. 1.8 10km ENE of Imperial, CA
  6. 2.3 4km E of Heber, CA
  7. 1.6 4km SW of Imperial, CA
  8. 1.6 8km NE of Imperial, CA
  9. 2.1 6km NNE of Puebla, B.C., MX
  10. 1.8 7km NNE of Puebla, B.C., MX
  11. 2.1 6km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  12. 1.7 7km W of Holtville, CA
  13. 2.2 4km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX
  14. 1.6 6km ENE of Imperial, CA
  15. 3.3 17km W of Delta, B.C., MX

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.

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