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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

15km NE of Borrego Springs, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 49 kmSan Diego County 61 kmImperial County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Riverside County, 49 km NNE
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 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 33.3347, -116.2403. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 49 km (31 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 89 km (55 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

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

  1. 2.1 11km SW of Salton City, CA
  2. 1.9 14km E of Julian, CA
  3. 1.8 24km ESE of Anza, CA
  4. 2.0 7km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA
  5. 2.1 11km SW of Salton City, CA
  6. 1.6 11km WSW of Salton City, CA
  7. 2.8 11km WSW of Salton City, CA
  8. 1.6 11km SW of Salton City, CA
  9. 2.0 11km SW of Salton City, CA
  10. 3.6 11km SW of Salton City, CA
  11. 1.5 12km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  12. 1.9 8km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA
  13. 1.7 9km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 1.8 3km ESE of Lake Henshaw, CA
  15. 2.1 2km SE of Lake Henshaw, 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 260,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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