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M 2.2ml

7km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 52 kmRiverside County 56 kmImperial County 96 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 52 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3421 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 33.3123, -116.3388. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 52 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Imperial County, CA 96 km (60 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

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

  1. 1.8 22 km NNE of Ramona, California
  2. 1.9 15 km ENE of Mt Laguna, California
  3. 1.6 9 km NE of Aguanga, CA
  4. 1.5 7 km NNW of Borrego Springs, California
  5. 1.7 14 km SSW of Salton City, California
  6. 2.3 8 km NE of Aguanga, California
  7. 2.5 7 km NE of Aguanga, California
  8. 2.7 9 km SSE of Aguanga, California
  9. 1.9 8 km SSE of Mountain Center, California
  10. 2.1 8 km NNW of Borrego Springs, California
  11. 1.6 12 km SSW of Salton City, California
  12. 1.9 8 km NE of Aguanga, California
  13. 1.6 Southern California
  14. 1.8 27 km W of Westmorland, California
  15. 1.8 8 km NE of Aguanga, California

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 31,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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