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M 3.6mlr

14km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX

· 17 km deep · released about 3.7 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (mlr)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Imperial County, 82 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2450 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.7× 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 32.2998, -115.3243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 82 km (51 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

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

  1. 1.8 4km WNW of Delta, B.C., MX
  2. 1.9 9 km NW of Delta, B.C., MX
  3. 2.7 21km SSW of Puebla, B.C., MX
  4. 1.6 10km SE of Progreso, B.C., MX
  5. 1.8 7km SE of Progreso, B.C., MX
  6. 1.6 16km W of Delta, B.C., MX
  7. 2.9 10km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX
  8. 2.0 13km SE of Puebla, B.C., MX
  9. 1.7 7km NE of Calexico, CA
  10. 1.6 9km NE of Mexicali, B.C., MX
  11. 1.6 8km SSW of Holtville, CA
  12. 1.8 9km SSW of Holtville, CA
  13. 1.9 9km NE of Calexico, CA
  14. 2.6 10km SW of Delta, B.C., MX
  15. 1.6 9km S of Progreso, 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 70 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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