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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

20km SE of Campo, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 180 lb of TNT

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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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Diego County, 74 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1506 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 86,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 61,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 32.4935, -116.3050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Diego County, CA 74 km (46 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 108 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 32km SE of Campo, CA
  2. 1.6 20km SE of Ocotillo, CA
  3. 1.6 20km ESE of Tijuana, B.C., MX
  4. 1.7 26km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  5. 1.5 28km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  6. 1.6 28km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  7. 1.7 28km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  8. 1.5 28km NW of Ocotillo, CA
  9. 1.8 28km NW of Ocotillo, CA
  10. 1.7 28km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  11. 1.7 23km SW of Ocotillo, CA
  12. 2.5 28km ENE of Pine Valley, CA
  13. 1.9 33km NE of Ensenada, B.C., MX
  14. 2.0 25km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  15. 2.2 26km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, 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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