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M 3.0ml

2km SW of Lake Henshaw, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 890 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Diego County 23 kmRiverside County 91 kmOrange County 105 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
472 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Diego County, 23 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2670 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 472 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 890 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 890 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 33.2323, -116.7785. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 23 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 91 km (56 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Orange County, CA 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  2. 1.6 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  3. 1.6 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  4. 1.5 15km ESE of Julian, CA
  5. 2.0 7km NE of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 2.5 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  7. 1.7 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 1.9 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  9. 2.2 10km NW of Anza, CA
  10. 2.5 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  11. 1.5 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  12. 2.1 10km ENE of Pala, CA
  13. 3.3 8km NNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  14. 1.5 23km SSW of La Quinta, CA
  15. 1.8 8km ENE of Aguanga, 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 2,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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