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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

51 km WNW of Ferndale, California

· 3.9 km deep · released about 260 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
3.9 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Humboldt County, 78 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3406 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 260 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 59,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 42,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 260 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 40.7252, -124.8460. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 78 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 135 km (84 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 51 km SW of Ferndale, California
  2. 2.0 26 km W of Indianola, California
  3. 2.9 69 km W of Ferndale, California
  4. 2.3 17 km W of Samoa, California
  5. 2.5 49 km W of Ferndale, California
  6. 1.8 4 km WNW of Ferndale, California
  7. 2.5 69 km WSW of Ferndale, California
  8. 2.5 14 km SW of Ferndale, California
  9. 2.0 17 km SW of Ferndale, California
  10. 3.9 15 km SW of Ferndale, California
  11. 2.7 89 km WNW of Samoa, California
  12. 2.4 35 km SW of Ferndale, California
  13. 2.6 38 km WSW of Ferndale, California
  14. 2.5 27 km W of Ferndale, California
  15. 2.2 36 km WSW 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 4.4 on 2016-01-02 — it released about 540 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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