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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

5 km E of Laytonville, California

· -1.0 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 30 kmLake County 87 kmGlenn County 88 kmTrinity County 109 kmTehama County 112 kmColusa County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
-1.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 30 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3515 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 39.6978, -123.4180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 30 km (18 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 88 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Trinity County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 112 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Colusa County, CA 117 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 17 km NE of Leggett, California
  2. 1.7 24 km SE of Alderpoint, California
  3. 1.8 4 km SE of Benbow, California
  4. 1.8 4 km SE of Benbow, California
  5. 1.7 9 km SE of Willits, California
  6. 1.7 12 km N of Brooktrails, California
  7. 2.0 6 km ENE of Brooktrails, California
  8. 1.5 25 km NNE of Potter Valley, California
  9. 1.8 21 km ENE of Leggett, California
  10. 2.1 7 km ESE of Willits, California
  11. 1.8 8 km WSW of Covelo, California
  12. 1.6 2 km NW of Redwood Valley, California
  13. 1.5 5 km NNW of Laytonville, California
  14. 1.8 10 km WSW of Covelo, California
  15. 1.7 26 km SE of Alderpoint, 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 4.1 on 2016-11-06 — it released about 1,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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