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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

45 km NE of Holtville, CA

· -0.2 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Imperial County 33 kmYuma County 106 kmLa Paz County 116 kmRiverside County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
-0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Imperial County, 33 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 150 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 6.2 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 33.0563, -114.9968. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Imperial County, CA 33 km (21 mi) E of here earthquakes near Imperial County
Yuma County, AZ 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yuma County
La Paz County, AZ 116 km (72 mi) SW of here earthquakes near La Paz County
Riverside County, CA 120 km (74 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Riverside County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 2 km NNE of Brawley, CA
  2. 1.9 1 km NNE of Brawley, CA
  3. 1.7 1 km E of Brawley, CA
  4. 1.6 1 km E of Brawley, CA
  5. 1.9 7 km 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.

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