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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

16km WSW of Tecate, B.C., MX

· -0.7 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 59 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2508 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 32.4902, -116.7715. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

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

  1. 2.0 9km SSW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  2. 2.1 15km SSE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  3. 1.6 5km ESE of Bonita, CA
  4. 1.8 14km ESE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  5. 1.5 6km SE of Bonita, CA
  6. 1.5 6km ESE of Chula Vista, CA
  7. 1.6 5km NE of Rancho San Diego, CA
  8. 1.7 41km SSE of Tecate, B.C., MX
  9. 1.7 22km NNE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  10. 1.6 2 km ENE of Rancho San Diego, CA
  11. 1.6 6km NNW of Lakeside, CA
  12. 1.7 32km NNE of El Sauzal, B.C., MX
  13. 1.6 6km NNW of Lakeside, CA
  14. 1.6 6km NNW of Lakeside, CA
  15. 2.4 20km NNE of El Sauzal, 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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