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M 2.5ml

3km SSW of Brawley, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Imperial County 20 kmRiverside County 97 kmSan Diego County 116 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Imperial County, 20 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3258 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 95,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 68,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 32.9497, -115.5408. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 20 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Imperial County
Riverside County, CA 97 km (60 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 116 km (72 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 19km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  2. 1.8 7km WSW of Calipatria, CA
  3. 1.6 16km ENE of Ocotillo, CA
  4. 1.8 14km WNW of Calipatria, CA
  5. 1.5 19km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  6. 2.4 10km NW of Calipatria, CA
  7. 2.5 10km NW of Calipatria, CA
  8. 2.2 5km SW of Niland, CA
  9. 1.9 19km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  10. 2.2 11km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  11. 1.9 7km NNE of Imperial, CA
  12. 1.6 8km ENE of El Centro, CA
  13. 1.7 2km ESE of Westmorland, CA
  14. 1.8 3km E of Westmorland, CA
  15. 1.5 14km WNW of Calipatria, 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 4.3 on 2016-09-27 — it released about 600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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