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M 2.2ml

13km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 52 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 54 kmSan Diego County 65 kmImperial County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 54 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3154 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 52 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 5.8 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 52 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 33.2577, -116.1322. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 65 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 76 km (47 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

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

  1. 2.7 13km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  2. 2.2 8km S of Salton City, CA
  3. 2.0 12km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA
  4. 1.7 14km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  5. 2.1 14km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  6. 1.8 14km N of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  7. 1.8 11km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 2.8 11km E of Borrego Springs, CA
  9. 1.8 14km SW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  10. 1.5 14km NNE of Borrego Springs, CA
  11. 1.5 13km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA
  12. 2.0 21km SSW of La Quinta, CA
  13. 1.9 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  14. 2.2 19km ESE of Anza, CA
  15. 3.6 10km ENE of Ocotillo Wells, 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 35,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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