quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.5mh
3km NNE of Rancho San Diego, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (mh)
- Depth
- -0.4 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- San Diego County, 31 km NNE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1647 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 32.7697, -116.9190. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego County, CA | 31 km (19 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near San Diego County |
| Orange County, CA | 129 km (80 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Orange County |
| Riverside County, CA | 137 km (85 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Riverside County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
22 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 4km NE of San Ysidro, CA
- 2.4 15km SW of La Jolla, CA
- 1.6 9km ESE of San Diego Country Estates, CA
- 1.5 6km NW of Lakeside, CA
- 1.6 18km ENE of Rosarito, B.C., MX
- 2.2 11km WNW of Julian, CA
- 1.5 3km ENE of San Ysidro, CA
- 1.7 7km SE of Bonita, CA
- 1.5 8km SW of Pine Valley, CA
- 1.6 5km NNE of San Ysidro, CA
- 1.6 5km NNE of San Ysidro, CA
- 1.6 8km SW of San Ysidro, CA
- 1.6 5km SE of Chula Vista, CA
- 1.7 17km W of La Jolla, CA
- 1.7 5km NNE of San Ysidro, 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.
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
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