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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

3 km NNE of Mountain Gate, California

· -0.8 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 23 kmTrinity County 69 kmTehama County 70 kmSiskiyou County 95 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3316 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 40.7487, -122.3112. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 69 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 70 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 95 km (59 mi) SSE 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. 1.6 12km WSW of Shingletown, CA
  2. 1.6 9km SW of Shingletown, CA
  3. 1.8 1km WSW of Palo Cedro, CA
  4. 2.8 9km SSW of McCloud, CA
  5. 1.8 1km SW of Palo Cedro, CA
  6. 1.5 3km NW of Palo Cedro, CA
  7. 2.5 6km ENE of Redding, CA
  8. 1.5 1km WNW of Palo Cedro, CA
  9. 1.5 2km W of Palo Cedro, CA
  10. 2.4 1km SW of Palo Cedro, CA
  11. 1.7 8km SE of French Gulch, CA
  12. 2.0 10km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  13. 2.2 2km E of Shasta Lake, CA
  14. 1.5 20km SE of Anderson, CA
  15. 1.5 3km E of Millville, 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.

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