10km S of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 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 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 32.1350, -115.1528. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.1 14km W of Delta, B.C., MX 11:19 UTC
2. 2.1 43km SW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 08:16 UTC
3. 2.0 16 km W of Delta, B.C., MX 08:04 UTC
4. 2.4 10km NW of Delta, B.C., MX 21:14 UTC
5. 1.8 4km WNW of Delta, B.C., MX 18:02 UTC
6. 1.9 9 km NW of Delta, B.C., MX 13:47 UTC
7. 2.7 21km SSW of Puebla, B.C., MX 14:58 UTC
8. 1.6 16km W of Delta, B.C., MX 00:33 UTC
9. 2.9 10km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 02:02 UTC
10. 2.0 13km SE of Puebla, B.C., MX 14:07 UTC
11. 2.6 10km SW of Delta, B.C., MX 22:12 UTC
12. 2.1 7km SW of Delta, B.C., MX 18:17 UTC
13. 2.7 8km WNW of Delta, B.C., MX 02:02 UTC
14. 3.0 6km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 22:50 UTC
15. 2.6 10km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 16:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:51 UTC. 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 4.8 on 2018-11-19 — it released about 8,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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