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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

6 km E of Geyserville, California

· 4.8 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 23 kmLake County 44 kmNapa County 49 kmColusa County 72 kmMarin County 74 kmYolo County 80 kmSolano County 92 kmMendocino County 96 kmSutter County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sonoma County, 23 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3258 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 38.7143, -122.8268. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 23 km (14 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Lake County, CA 44 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Napa County, CA 49 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Colusa County, CA 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Marin County, CA 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County
Yolo County, CA 80 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.6 0km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 2.7 10km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.7 2km W of Anderson Springs, CA
  5. 1.7 2km N of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.9 11 km W of Cobb, California
  7. 1.7 9 km W of Cobb, California
  8. 1.9 6 km W of Cobb, California
  9. 1.6 7 km E of Clearlake Oaks, California
  10. 1.5 7 km S of Cobb, California
  11. 1.9 8 km W of Cobb, California
  12. 1.7 5 km SSW of Cobb, California
  13. 1.6 6 km W of Cobb, California
  14. 1.8 7 km W of Cobb, California
  15. 1.9 7 km W of Cobb, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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