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M 1.5md

12km SSE of Livermore, CA

· 2.6 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alameda County 19 kmSanta Clara County 41 kmContra Costa County 43 kmSan Joaquin County 54 kmSan Mateo County 62 kmStanislaus County 62 kmSanta Cruz County 69 kmSolano County 78 kmMerced County 97 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alameda County, 19 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3027 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 6.2 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 37.5873, -121.7080. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alameda County, CA 19 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Santa Clara County, CA 41 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County
Contra Costa County, CA 43 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
San Joaquin County, CA 54 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
San Mateo County, CA 62 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Stanislaus County, CA 62 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Stanislaus County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4 km SW of Danville, California
  2. 1.5 14 km NE of Morgan Hill, California
  3. 2.1 2 km SSW of San Ramon, California
  4. 2.2 1 km SSW of San Ramon, California
  5. 1.8 0 km NNW of Ladera, California
  6. 1.6 1 km N of Ladera, California
  7. 2.0 1 km W of Danville, California
  8. 2.2 Northern California
  9. 1.6 11 km SE of Sunol, CA
  10. 1.7 2 km S of Loyola, California
  11. 2.2 5 km S of Livermore, California
  12. 1.5 1 km W of Los Altos Hills, California
  13. 1.7 3 km W of Byron, California
  14. 1.6 4 km SSW of Byron, California
  15. 1.7 3 km WSW of Loyola, 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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