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M 1.7md

12 km WNW of Redway, California

· 14 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 60 kmTrinity County 88 kmMendocino County 93 km
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 1.7 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 60 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3530 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 40.1712, -123.9475. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 88 km (55 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Mendocino County, CA 93 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 157 km (97 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 15 km ENE of Hydesville, California
  2. 2.0 35 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  3. 1.6 10 km WSW of Scotia, California
  4. 1.6 near the coast of Northern California
  5. 1.8 4 km SE of Benbow, California
  6. 1.8 4 km SE of Benbow, California
  7. 2.3 30 km SW of Scotia, California
  8. 1.9 19 km E of Hydesville, California
  9. 1.9 15 km SSW of Scotia, California
  10. 2.2 34 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  11. 1.7 32 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  12. 2.9 12 km WSW of Mad River, California
  13. 1.8 21 km ENE of Leggett, California
  14. 1.9 13 km N of Alderpoint, California
  15. 2.2 23 km SSW of Ferndale, 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 4.3 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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