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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

4 km N of Guerneville, California

· 3.7 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 6 kmNapa County 58 kmMarin County 58 kmLake County 66 kmSan Francisco County 91 kmYolo County 96 kmColusa County 96 kmSolano County 96 kmMendocino County 107 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
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sonoma County, 6 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3511 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 38.5412, -122.9875. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 6 km (3 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 58 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Marin County
Lake County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
San Francisco County, CA 91 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Francisco County
Yolo County, CA 96 km (59 mi) W 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. 1.6 5 km W of Cobb, California
  2. 1.7 6 km S of Cobb, California
  3. 1.6 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  4. 1.9 7 km W of Cobb, California
  5. 1.5 5 km WNW of Cobb, California
  6. 3.1 12 km WSW of Cloverdale, California
  7. 1.9 7 km S of Calistoga, California
  8. 1.5 8 km W of Cobb, California
  9. 1.9 4 km SW of Cobb, California
  10. 1.6 8 km W of Cobb, California
  11. 1.5 2 km E of Saint Helena, California
  12. 2.7 4 km S of Cobb, California
  13. 2.0 8 km WSW of Cobb, California
  14. 1.6 4 km WNW of Cobb, California
  15. 2.2 6 km W 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 99,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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