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M 1.5md

4 km WSW of Moskowite Corner, California

· 6.5 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 12 kmSolano County 32 kmYolo County 41 kmSonoma County 61 kmMarin County 61 kmContra Costa County 62 kmSacramento County 78 kmSutter County 82 kmColusa County 84 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 12 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3450 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 38.4260, -122.2420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Napa County
Solano County, CA 32 km (20 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Yolo County, CA 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Sonoma County, CA 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Marin County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Contra Costa County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7 km SSW of Dunnigan, California
  2. 2.0 6 km SW of Dunnigan, California
  3. 1.6 10 km W of Esparto, California
  4. 2.6 13 km E of Angwin, California
  5. 1.6 4 km WSW of Rutherford, California
  6. 2.6 5 km S of Monument Hills, California
  7. 1.9 13 km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, California
  8. 2.0 11 km NNW of Pittsburg, California
  9. 1.9 12 km NNE of Bay Point, California
  10. 2.1 10 km N of Bay Point, California
  11. 1.6 7 km SW of Napa, California
  12. 1.9 4 km WNW of Moskowite Corner, 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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