Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.5ml
3 km SW of Brawley, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 9.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Imperial County, 20 km ENE
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 5 hours ago
This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 5.7 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | 4 km SW of Brawley, CA | 3 km SW of Brawley, CA | |
| longitude | -115.57 | -115.55 | |
| latitude | 32.96 | 32.96 | |
| depth | 5.43 | 9.33 | |
| magnitude | 1.71 | 1.52 |
Where
Epicentre 32.9627, -115.5538. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial County, CA | 20 km (13 mi) | WSW of here | earthquakes near Imperial County |
| Riverside County, CA | 95 km (59 mi) | SSE of here | earthquakes near Riverside County |
| San Diego County, CA | 114 km (71 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near San Diego County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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 5.3 on 2021-06-05 — it released about 390,000 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.