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M 2.3ml

15km NW of Progreso, B.C., MX

Yes. A magnitude 2.3 earthquake was recorded 15km NW of Progreso, B.C., MX, at 6:54 am PDT on 10 April 2022 (13:54 UTC), 11 km deep.

· 11 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Imperial County 50 kmSan Diego County 109 kmRiverside County 120 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Imperial County, 50 km NE
Nearest mapped fault
Yuha Basin faults, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1676 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 17 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Likely felt in: El Centro 17 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 94 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 94 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.9 on 2020-10-01 — about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 32.6845, -115.6868. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Imperial County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NE earthquakes near Imperial County
San Diego County, CA 109 km (67 mi) WNW earthquakes near San Diego County
Riverside County, CA 120 km (74 mi) NNW earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 7km S of Brawley, CA
  2. 2.5 7km S of Brawley, CA
  3. 3.3 7km SSE of Brawley, CA
  4. 1.7 8km NE of Imperial, CA
  5. 1.7 8km SSE of Brawley, CA
  6. 2.5 10km NW of Delta, B.C., MX
  7. 1.7 6km SSE of Brawley, CA
  8. 2.1 7km SSE of Brawley, CA
  9. 2.2 12km NW of Delta, B.C., MX
  10. 1.6 8km SSE of Brawley, CA
  11. 1.9 7km S of Brawley, CA
  12. 2.0 8km S of Brawley, CA
  13. 1.8 7km S of Brawley, CA
  14. 2.2 8km S of Brawley, CA
  15. 2.2 7km SSE of Brawley, 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

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