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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

15 km SW of Paskenta, California

· 11 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 33 kmTehama County 54 kmMendocino County 76 kmLake County 76 kmColusa County 79 kmButte County 94 kmTrinity County 102 kmSutter County 119 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
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 33 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3244 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 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 39.7933, -122.6900. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 33 km (20 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Tehama County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Mendocino County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 76 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 79 km (49 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Butte County, CA 94 km (58 mi) W of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 28km WSW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  2. 2.3 15km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  3. 2.9 14km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  4. 1.6 18km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.5 6km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 1.7 40km NE of Covelo, CA
  7. 2.4 41km NE of Covelo, CA
  8. 2.0 8km NE of Covelo, CA
  9. 1.8 39km NE of Covelo, CA
  10. 1.8 32km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  11. 1.9 20km SW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  12. 1.5 9km ESE of Covelo, CA
  13. 1.8 17km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 1.6 24km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.6 7km N of Lake Pillsbury, 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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