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M 2.6ml

21km ESE of Anza, CA

· 5.7 km deep · released about 250 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 49 kmSan Diego County 61 kmImperial County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Riverside County, 49 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2078 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 250 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 250 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 33.5042, -116.4600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 49 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 115 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 14km ENE of Borrego Springs, CA
  2. 2.5 5km SW of Salton City, CA
  3. 2.1 7km SW of Anza, CA
  4. 1.5 16km ESE of Anza, CA
  5. 1.6 16km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 1.6 8km NE of Aguanga, CA
  7. 2.0 22km N of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 3.6 6km SSW of Warner Springs, CA
  9. 1.7 6km WSW of Aguanga, CA
  10. 3.5 7km WSW of Aguanga, CA
  11. 2.0 7km SW of Anza, CA
  12. 2.9 7km NE of Aguanga, CA
  13. 2.2 8km SE of Valle Vista, CA
  14. 1.7 12km NE of Julian, CA
  15. 1.6 13km WNW of Anza, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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