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M 1.6ml

25km ESE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX

· 12 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 95 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2106 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 32.1737, -116.6550. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 95 km (59 mi) S 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

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

  1. 2.4 37km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  2. 1.9 24km ESE of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  3. 2.4 32km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  4. 1.9 24km N of El Sauzal, B.C., MX
  5. 2.7 32km E of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  6. 1.6 34km SSE of Campo, CA
  7. 1.7 37km SSE of Campo, CA
  8. 1.7 42km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  9. 2.3 19km SW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  10. 1.5 32km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  11. 2.2 44km ENE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  12. 2.5 5km WSW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  13. 1.5 27km SE of Campo, CA
  14. 1.6 23km SE of Campo, CA
  15. 1.8 32km NE of Ensenada, 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 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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