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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5km SE of Chula Vista, CA

· -0.3 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 51 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1802 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.8 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 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 32.6032, -117.0050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 51 km (32 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Orange County, CA 139 km (87 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6km ENE of Rancho San Diego, CA
  2. 1.6 6km E of Chula Vista, CA
  3. 1.6 20km ESE of Tijuana, B.C., MX
  4. 1.7 10km SW of La Jolla, CA
  5. 1.6 4km NE of San Ysidro, CA
  6. 2.4 15km SW of La Jolla, CA
  7. 1.6 9km ESE of San Diego Country Estates, CA
  8. 1.6 7km SW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  9. 1.5 6km NW of Lakeside, CA
  10. 1.6 18km ENE of Rosarito, B.C., MX
  11. 1.5 3km ENE of San Ysidro, CA
  12. 1.6 7km SW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  13. 1.7 7km SE of Bonita, CA
  14. 2.5 8km SSW of Primo Tapia, B.C., MX
  15. 1.5 8km SW of Pine Valley, 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.

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