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M 1.6ml

9km S of Ocotillo Wells, CA

· 9.3 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 59 kmImperial County 73 kmRiverside County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
9.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 59 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3205 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 33.0635, -116.1432. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 73 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Imperial County
Riverside County, CA 75 km (47 mi) S of here earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 7km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  2. 1.8 16km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  3. 1.5 12km WNW of Calipatria, CA
  4. 1.6 13km WNW of Calipatria, CA
  5. 1.8 15km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  6. 2.6 10km S of Salton City, CA
  7. 1.7 14km SSW of Westmorland, CA
  8. 1.6 18km NNW of Ocotillo, CA
  9. 1.6 14km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 1.7 12km WNW of Calipatria, CA
  11. 1.6 15km SSE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  12. 1.6 13km WNW of Calipatria, CA
  13. 1.7 6km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  14. 3.6 6km ESE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  15. 2.0 27km ENE of Pine Valley, 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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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