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M 1.6md

19 km W of Volta, California

· 5.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Merced County, 38 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3517 days 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 37.1223, -121.1387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Merced County, CA 38 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Merced County
Santa Clara County, CA 50 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County
Stanislaus County, CA 50 km (31 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Stanislaus County
San Benito County, CA 57 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Santa Cruz County, CA 78 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Cruz County
Alameda County, CA 90 km (56 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alameda County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 7 km N of Hollister, California
  2. 2.3 7 km N of Hollister, California
  3. 1.7 12 km NNW of Hollister, California
  4. 2.5 16 km E of Seven Trees, California
  5. 2.3 16 km E of Seven Trees, California
  6. 3.5 8 km S of Tres Pinos, California
  7. 2.1 5 km S of Gilroy, California
  8. 1.9 2 km E of Aromas, California
  9. 2.1 2 km SSW of San Juan Bautista, California
  10. 1.7 6 km SW of Ridgemark, California
  11. 1.7 12 km NNE of Hollister, California
  12. 2.0 Central California
  13. 1.8 22 km SSW of South Dos Palos, California
  14. 2.1 9 km SSW of Tres Pinos, California
  15. 1.8 5 km SW of Gilroy, California

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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