7km SSE of Estacion Coahuila, B.C., MX

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 70,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,100× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,200× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.4 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.1× more

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 32.1372, -114.9808. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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. 2.3 16km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 00:16 UTC
2. 2.2 17km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX 02:10 UTC
3. 2.5 15km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX 19:21 UTC
4. 2.2 9km NW of Delta, B.C., MX 22:09 UTC
5. 3.0 15km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX 13:13 UTC
6. 3.9 55km S of Estacion Coahuila, B.C., MX 06:36 UTC
7. 2.0 8km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX 08:53 UTC
8. 2.3 7km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX 04:57 UTC
9. 2.4 11km SE of Puebla, B.C., MX 21:35 UTC
10. 1.8 8km NNW of Delta, B.C., MX 05:48 UTC
11. 2.8 9km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 02:11 UTC
12. 2.3 17km SSW of Puebla, B.C., MX 15:41 UTC
13. 2.1 13km WSW of Delta, B.C., MX 00:22 UTC
14. 2.2 2km W of Delta, B.C., MX 05:19 UTC
15. 3.7 7km N of Delta, B.C., MX 12:51 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 15:28 UTC. 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 4.8 on 2018-11-19 — it released about 110 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.