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M 3.2ml

8km NW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX

· 27 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Imperial County, 86 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2570 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.3× more

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 32.2795, -115.2263. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 86 km (53 mi) S of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 43km SW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  2. 2.0 16 km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  3. 2.4 10km NW of Delta, B.C., MX
  4. 1.8 4km WNW of Delta, B.C., MX
  5. 1.9 9 km NW of Delta, B.C., MX
  6. 2.7 21km SSW of Puebla, B.C., MX
  7. 1.6 10km SE of Progreso, B.C., MX
  8. 1.8 7km SE of Progreso, B.C., MX
  9. 1.6 16km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  10. 2.9 10km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  11. 2.0 13km SE of Puebla, B.C., MX
  12. 1.6 9km NE of Mexicali, B.C., MX
  13. 2.6 10km SW of Delta, B.C., MX
  14. 1.6 9km S of Progreso, B.C., MX
  15. 2.1 7km SW of Delta, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2018-11-19 — it released about 230 times the energy of this one.

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

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