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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

5 km ESE of Leggett, California

· -1.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 49 kmHumboldt County 98 kmTrinity County 100 kmGlenn County 110 kmLake County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
-1.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 49 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3319 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 39.8477, -123.6487. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 49 km (31 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Humboldt County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 110 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 113 km (70 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 15km WNW of Brooktrails, CA
  2. 2.1 5km NW of Redway, CA
  3. 2.5 4km E of Covelo, CA
  4. 1.6 7km SSW of Laytonville, CA
  5. 1.7 8km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  6. 1.7 4km E of Covelo, CA
  7. 1.5 12km N of Brooktrails, CA
  8. 1.9 16km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  9. 2.2 10km SW of Laytonville, CA
  10. 1.9 12km N of Laytonville, CA
  11. 2.2 3km NW of Redway, CA
  12. 2.3 3km NW of Redway, CA
  13. 1.9 18km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  14. 2.0 19km NE of Rockport, CA
  15. 1.7 16km WSW of Laytonville, CA

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 4.1 on 2016-11-06 — it released about 3,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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