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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

8 km NNE of Clearlake, California

· 3.7 km deep · released about 180 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (md)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lake County, 18 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3516 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 86,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 61,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 39.0222, -122.5735. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 18 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 34 km (21 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Glenn County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Yolo County, CA 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 7 km W of Cobb, California
  2. 1.5 18 km NE of Upper Lake, California
  3. 1.7 6 km W of Middletown, California
  4. 1.7 5 km WNW of Cobb, California
  5. 1.7 9 km W of Cobb, California
  6. 2.0 5 km SW of Cobb, California
  7. 2.1 6 km N of Hopland, California
  8. 1.9 5 km SW of Cobb, California
  9. 1.6 19 km NNE of Upper Lake, California
  10. 1.5 20 km NNE of Upper Lake, California
  11. 2.2 4 km W of Cobb, California
  12. 1.9 6 km WNW of Cobb, California
  13. 1.8 9 km W of Cobb, California
  14. 2.7 8 km WNW of Cobb, California
  15. 1.6 9 km WNW of Cobb, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 7,400 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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