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M 3.0ml

32km NE of Ensenada, B.C., MX

· 16 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
20 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
San Diego County, 114 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2339 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 20 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 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 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 32.0603, -116.3590. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 144 km (89 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 44km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  2. 2.0 32km NE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  3. 1.9 37km NE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  4. 1.8 33km ENE of Maneadero, B.C., MX
  5. 1.9 35km NNE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  6. 2.1 24km NNE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  7. 2.8 47km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  8. 1.6 25km ESE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  9. 2.1 12km NW of El Sauzal, B.C., MX
  10. 2.9 15km WNW of El Sauzal, B.C., MX
  11. 2.5 34km E of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  12. 2.6 49km E of Maneadero, B.C., MX
  13. 1.9 33km NE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  14. 1.6 52km S of Ocotillo, CA
  15. 2.1 15km SSE of Primo Tapia, 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 4.2 on 2018-07-25 — it released about 61 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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