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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

20km N of Redway, CA

· 31 km deep · released about 380 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 46 kmTrinity County 72 kmMendocino County 102 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 2.7 (md)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Humboldt County, 46 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1512 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 380 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 40,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 29,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 380 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 40.2960, -123.8342. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Mendocino County, CA 102 km (63 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 12km S of Rio Dell, CA
  2. 1.7 2km SSE of Hydesville, CA
  3. 1.9 20km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  4. 1.7 30km NNE of Redway, CA
  5. 2.1 19km NNE of Redway, CA
  6. 2.3 6km SSE of Pine Hills, CA
  7. 1.7 17km SE of Petrolia, CA
  8. 2.1 6km SW of Petrolia, CA
  9. 2.4 9km SW of Petrolia, CA
  10. 2.0 37km NNE of Redway, CA
  11. 2.5 38km NNE of Redway, CA
  12. 1.9 12km NW of Petrolia, CA
  13. 2.5 8km NNW of Petrolia, CA
  14. 2.5 9km NNW of Petrolia, CA
  15. 1.6 27km NNW of Covelo, 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 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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