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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

17 km NE of Upper Lake, California

· 8.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 21 kmGlenn County 48 kmColusa County 50 kmMendocino County 58 kmSonoma County 87 kmNapa County 97 kmSutter County 98 kmYolo County 103 kmTehama County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3389 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× 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 39.2962, -122.7928. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 48 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 50 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Mendocino County, CA 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 97 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 9 km NE of Willits, California
  2. 1.5 15 km NE of Potter Valley, California
  3. 1.7 15 km NE of Potter Valley, California
  4. 1.9 15 km NE of Potter Valley, California
  5. 1.9 3 km W of Clear Lake Riviera, California
  6. 1.9 17 km NW of Elk Creek, California
  7. 1.8 3 km WSW of Hopland, California
  8. 1.6 8 km E of Willits, California
  9. 2.0 6 km ENE of Calpella, California
  10. 1.7 9 km ESE of Willits, California
  11. 1.6 19 km ENE of Potter Valley, California
  12. 1.7 20 km ENE of Potter Valley, California
  13. 1.5 18 km NE of Upper Lake, California
  14. 1.7 1 km N of Talmage, California
  15. 2.2 19 km NE of Upper Lake, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 120,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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