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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

7 km WNW of Redwood Valley, California

· 3.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 21 kmLake County 50 kmGlenn County 82 kmColusa County 90 kmSonoma County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 21 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3350 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 39.2985, -123.2765. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 21 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 50 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 82 km (51 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 90 km (56 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 91 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 120 km (75 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 8 km SSW of Comptche, California
  2. 1.5 near the coast of Northern California
  3. 2.5 7 km NNE of Hopland, California
  4. 1.6 13 km SSE of Laytonville, California
  5. 1.6 13 km SSE of Laytonville, California
  6. 1.9 12 km N of Brooktrails, California
  7. 1.7 20 km W of Stonyford, California
  8. 1.7 14 km NNE of Brooktrails, California
  9. 1.8 18 km NNE of Upper Lake, California
  10. 1.8 17 km NE of Potter Valley, California
  11. 1.8 19 km NNE of Upper Lake, California
  12. 2.2 18 km NE of Upper Lake, California
  13. 2.4 18 km NE of Upper Lake, California
  14. 1.8 9 km W of Hopland, California
  15. 3.9 3 km NW of Redwood Valley, 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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