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M 2.0ml

6km WSW of Holtville, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Imperial County, 28 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2349 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 32.7968, -115.4455. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 28 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Imperial County
Riverside County, CA 116 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8km W of Progreso, B.C., MX
  2. 1.7 5km SW of Niland, CA
  3. 1.9 10km SW of Niland, CA
  4. 1.6 3km SSW of Imperial, CA
  5. 1.5 3km SSW of Imperial, CA
  6. 1.6 6km SSE of Brawley, CA
  7. 1.5 9km W of Holtville, CA
  8. 2.7 8km WNW of Holtville, CA
  9. 2.6 9km WNW of Holtville, CA
  10. 2.6 12km WSW of Puebla, B.C., MX
  11. 1.8 24km WSW of Westmorland, CA
  12. 1.7 7km SW of Niland, CA
  13. 1.7 6km WSW of Holtville, CA
  14. 1.7 7km SW of Holtville, CA
  15. 1.6 9km N of Puebla, 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 4.0 on 2016-07-31 — it released about 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

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