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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

89 km WNW of Samoa, California

· 15 km deep · released about 320 lb of TNT

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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 2.7 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Humboldt County, 114 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3295 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 320 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 48,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 34,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 320 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 41.0360, -125.2132. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 114 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 130 km (81 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 102km WNW of Bayview, CA
  2. 2.6 56km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  3. 3.2 97km W of Trinidad, CA
  4. 4.1 94km W of Trinidad, CA
  5. 2.8 73km W of Ferndale, CA
  6. 2.7 60km W of Ferndale, CA
  7. 2.9 104km W of Trinidad, CA
  8. 2.5 84km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  9. 3.6 99km W of Trinidad, CA
  10. 2.9 76 km W of Big Lagoon, California
  11. 2.8 101 km W of Indianola, California
  12. 2.5 off the coast of Northern California
  13. 2.7 60km W of Ferndale, CA
  14. 2.4 66km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  15. 2.4 53km WNW of Bayview, 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 5.1 on 2017-07-29 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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