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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5 km E of Healdsburg, California

· 7.4 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sonoma County, 14 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3403 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 6.4 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 2,400,000× 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 1.6 about 6.4 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 38.6113, -122.8060. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 14 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Lake County, CA 55 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Marin County, CA 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County
Yolo County, CA 79 km (49 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Colusa County, CA 80 km (50 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7 km S of Cobb, California
  2. 1.6 6 km W of Cobb, California
  3. 1.6 5 km S of Cobb, California
  4. 2.4 7 km W of Cobb, California
  5. 1.6 7 km W of Cobb, California
  6. 1.5 8 km W of Cobb, California
  7. 2.0 6 km W of Cobb, California
  8. 1.7 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  9. 2.4 9 km WNW of Cobb, California
  10. 2.4 4 km WSW of Cobb, California
  11. 1.5 8 km WSW of Cobb, California
  12. 1.6 5 km ENE of Kenwood, California
  13. 1.8 6 km W of Cobb, California
  14. 2.4 5 km SW of Oakville, California
  15. 2.1 5 km SW 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 150,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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