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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

1 km W of Hyampom, California

· 22 km deep · released about 180 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 30 kmHumboldt County 40 kmTehama County 118 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Trinity County, 30 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3278 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 83,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 59,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 40.6168, -123.4720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 30 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 40 km (25 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Tehama County, CA 118 km (74 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 134 km (83 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Glenn County, CA 145 km (90 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 34km ENE of Redway, CA
  2. 2.3 28km W of Hayfork, CA
  3. 2.4 28km W of Hayfork, CA
  4. 1.6 29km NNE of Redway, CA
  5. 1.8 15km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  6. 1.7 30km NNE of Redway, CA
  7. 2.1 19km NNE of Redway, CA
  8. 2.7 14km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  9. 2.0 37km NNE of Redway, CA
  10. 2.5 38km NNE of Redway, CA
  11. 1.9 9km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  12. 3.0 8km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  13. 2.4 16km S of Willow Creek, CA
  14. 1.8 16km S of Willow Creek, CA
  15. 1.8 6km N of Hayfork, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 2,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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