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M 1.7md

15 km NNE of Mineral, California

· 4.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 53 kmTehama County 71 kmPlumas County 81 kmLassen County 81 kmButte County 91 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
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 53 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3475 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 11 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 40.4815, -121.5353. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 71 km (44 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Plumas County, CA 81 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Lassen County, CA 81 km (51 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Butte County, CA 91 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butte County
Glenn County, CA 122 km (76 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 18 km SSE of Round Mountain, California
  2. 1.8 15 km NNE of Mineral, California
  3. 1.6 8 km NW of Paynes Creek, California
  4. 1.8 27 km E of Hat Creek, California
  5. 1.9 3 km WNW of Lake Almanor Country Club, California
  6. 2.2 1 km NE of Prattville, California
  7. 2.2 0 km ENE of Prattville, California
  8. 1.7 3 km SW of East Shore, California
  9. 2.0 5 km W of Cassel, California
  10. 1.7 9 km NW of Old Station, California
  11. 1.6 15 km SE of Mineral, California
  12. 2.7 19 km SW of Old Station, California
  13. 2.5 7 km WNW of Mineral, California
  14. 2.0 20 km N of Mineral, California
  15. 1.8 18 km NNE of Shingletown, 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.

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