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M 3.3ml

17 km SW of Oasis, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Riverside County 47 kmSan Diego County 64 kmImperial County 86 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
30 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Riverside County, 47 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 772 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 30 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 33.3423, -116.2052. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Riverside County, CA 47 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Riverside County
San Diego County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Diego County
Imperial County, CA 86 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Imperial County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 18 km SE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  2. 2.1 6 km WNW of Borrego Springs, CA
  3. 2.6 7 km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  4. 1.8 7 km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  5. 1.5 7 km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  6. 3.5 7 km S of Borrego Springs, CA
  7. 2.7 14 km SW of Borrego Springs, CA
  8. 1.8 11 km ESE of North Shore, CA
  9. 2.3 6 km SSW of Borrego Springs, CA
  10. 2.0 12 km SW of Salton City, CA
  11. 1.5 29 km SSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  12. 2.4 12 km SW of Salton City, CA
  13. 1.7 12 km NNE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  14. 1.6 23 km ESE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
  15. 1.6 11 km NNE of Borrego Springs, 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 5.2 on 2016-06-10 — it released about 680 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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