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M 2.8ml

5km ESE of Borrego Springs, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 49 kmRiverside County 61 kmImperial County 93 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
San Diego County, 49 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2750 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 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 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 33.2458, -116.3230. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 49 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 61 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Imperial County, CA 93 km (58 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. 2.3 10km WSW of Anza, CA
  2. 1.6 10km WSW of Anza, CA
  3. 2.8 21km ESE of Anza, CA
  4. 2.1 23km SSW of La Quinta, CA
  5. 2.8 12km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 1.8 3km ESE of Lake Henshaw, CA
  7. 1.7 9km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 1.7 9km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  9. 1.8 25km NW of Ocotillo, CA
  10. 1.8 26km SW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  11. 1.8 2km SE of Lake Henshaw, CA
  12. 2.2 18km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  13. 2.3 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 2.1 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  15. 1.8 21km NNW of Borrego Springs, 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 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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