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M 2.3ml

16km SW of Ocotillo, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
San Diego County, 74 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1360 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

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.

Where

Epicentre 32.6407, -116.1240. 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 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Imperial 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. 2.6 17km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  2. 1.6 16km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  3. 3.4 17km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  4. 1.6 17km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  5. 1.7 16km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  6. 3.2 17km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  7. 2.3 17km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  8. 1.7 32km SE of Campo, CA
  9. 1.6 20km SE of Ocotillo, CA
  10. 2.6 15km WSW of Heber, CA
  11. 3.5 8km SSW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  12. 1.7 16km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  13. 1.8 21km ESE of Julian, CA
  14. 1.9 7km SSW of Progreso, B.C., MX
  15. 2.0 27km SE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2020-05-10 — it released about 2,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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