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M 2.4md

79 km WNW of Indianola, California

· 6.6 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 104 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3516 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 40.9082, -125.1345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 104 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 134 km (83 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 67km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  2. 2.6 47km W of Ferndale, CA
  3. 2.8 95km W of Trinidad, CA
  4. 2.5 51km W of Ferndale, CA
  5. 2.9 44km WNW of Bayview, CA
  6. 2.8 49km W of Ferndale, CA
  7. 2.9 47km W of Ferndale, CA
  8. 2.6 51km W of Ferndale, CA
  9. 2.6 78km W of Ferndale, CA
  10. 2.6 64km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  11. 3.4 55km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  12. 2.5 65km WNW of Bayview, CA
  13. 2.6 59km W of Ferndale, CA
  14. 2.9 99km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  15. 2.7 72km WNW of Petrolia, 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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