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M 2.8ml

4km ESE of Tijuana, B.C., MX

· 12 km deep · released about 420 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
84 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Diego County, 59 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3181 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 84 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 420 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 36,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 26,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 420 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 32.5190, -116.9740. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 59 km (37 mi) SSW 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

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

  1. 1.6 6km SE of Bonita, CA
  2. 2.0 23km NE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  3. 1.6 6km ESE of Chula Vista, CA
  4. 1.6 17km SW of La Jolla, CA
  5. 1.6 5km W of Chula Vista, CA
  6. 1.9 13km WSW of Coronado, CA
  7. 1.6 4km NNE of Imperial Beach, CA
  8. 1.8 10km SSW of San Diego Country Estates, CA
  9. 1.5 13km WSW of Coronado, CA
  10. 1.9 14km SW of Rosarito, B.C., MX
  11. 1.6 2km ENE of San Ysidro, CA
  12. 2.2 32km E of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  13. 1.6 25km ENE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  14. 1.7 6km N of Lakeside, CA
  15. 1.6 6km SE of Bostonia, 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.

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