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M 2.3ml

16km SSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX

· 24 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Imperial County, 105 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3184 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 32.1003, -115.2443. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 105 km (65 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

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

  1. 2.3 65km SW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  2. 3.1 64km SW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  3. 2.7 10km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  4. 2.2 11km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  5. 2.5 10km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX
  6. 1.8 10km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX
  7. 2.2 10km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  8. 2.2 13km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX
  9. 2.3 10km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX
  10. 2.4 6km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX
  11. 2.6 52km SSW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  12. 2.2 6km NNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  13. 2.3 15km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  14. 3.1 20km S of Estacion Coahuila, B.C., MX
  15. 2.3 19km SSW of Puebla, 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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