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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

3 km ENE of Lower Lake, California

· 5.0 km deep · released about 74 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 26 kmColusa County 41 kmNapa County 50 kmSonoma County 53 kmYolo County 64 kmSutter County 76 kmGlenn County 78 kmSolano County 91 kmMendocino County 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lake County, 26 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3551 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 74 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 74 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 38.9170, -122.5752. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 26 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 41 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 53 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Yolo County, CA 64 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Sutter County, CA 76 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sutter County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 8 km WSW of Cobb, California
  2. 1.6 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  3. 1.7 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  4. 1.8 9 km E of Angwin, California
  5. 2.4 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  6. 2.3 7 km W of Cobb, California
  7. 1.7 5 km S of Cobb, California
  8. 1.5 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  9. 1.9 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  10. 2.1 9 km W of Cobb, California
  11. 1.6 3 km NW of Clearlake, California
  12. 1.6 9 km W of Cobb, California
  13. 2.0 6 km W of Cobb, California
  14. 1.5 3 km SSW of Cobb, California
  15. 1.5 Northern 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 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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