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M 6.2mww

18 km SE of Aquila, Mexico

· 39 km deep · released about 30 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 6.2 (mww)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
658 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 112 days ago

This was a strong earthquake. Damage is likely near the epicentre and it is felt over a wide area. 658 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 22× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 11× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 6.2 about 30 kilotons of TNT
  5. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 4× more
  6. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 5.6× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 7.6 on 2022-09-19 — about 130 times the energy of this one.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.5019, -103.3631. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.3 11 km ENE of Aquila, Mexico
  2. 4.3 7 km E of Aquila, Mexico
  3. 4.4 19 km SE of Aquila, Mexico
  4. 4.9 12 km SSE of Aquila, Mexico
  5. 4.8 21 km ESE of Aquila, Mexico

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.

On USGS

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