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M 1.7md

19 km NNE of Redcrest, California

· 26 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 18 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3363 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 40.5558, -123.8385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 62 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Siskiyou County, CA 159 km (99 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 24km SE of Willow Creek, CA
  2. 2.1 15km S of Willow Creek, CA
  3. 2.4 10 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  4. 2.2 10 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  5. 2.2 near the coast of Northern California
  6. 2.0 9 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  7. 2.8 9 km SW of Ferndale, California
  8. 2.4 9 km SW of Ferndale, California
  9. 2.7 9 km SSW of Ferndale, California
  10. 2.5 16 km WSW of Burnt Ranch, California
  11. 2.1 3 km NW of Trinity Village, California
  12. 1.8 17 km WSW of Mad River, California
  13. 2.2 6 km W of Burnt Ranch, California
  14. 2.3 4 km WSW of Samoa, California
  15. 2.2 8 km NNE of Redcrest, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 40,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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