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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

22km NE of Thermal, CA

· 2.5 km deep · released about 310 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 6 kmImperial County 99 kmSan Diego County 112 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Riverside County, 6 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 711 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 310 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 50,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 35,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 310 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 33.7700, -115.9622. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 6 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Riverside County
Imperial County, CA 99 km (61 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Imperial County
San Diego County, CA 112 km (70 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Diego County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 30km SE of Twentynine Palms, CA
  2. 1.6 12km NE of Indio, CA
  3. 1.7 13km NE of Indio, CA
  4. 1.5 10km ENE of Indio, CA
  5. 1.7 14km S of Twentynine Palms, CA
  6. 1.6 10 km E of Desert Hot Springs, CA
  7. 1.7 17km SSW of La Quinta, CA
  8. 1.9 14km NE of Indio, CA
  9. 1.9 10km S of Joshua Tree, CA
  10. 1.6 11km NE of Indio, CA
  11. 1.6 16km N of Indio, CA
  12. 1.7 5km WNW of Bombay Beach, CA
  13. 1.8 16km NE of Indio, CA
  14. 1.9 4km NE of North Shore, CA
  15. 1.6 17km N of Indio, CA

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 2019-07-22 — it released about 200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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