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M 4.4mw

2km SE of Berkeley, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 56 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 28 kmAlameda County 38 kmMarin County 48 kmSan Mateo County 50 kmSolano County 54 kmSan Francisco County 70 kmNapa County 73 kmSanta Clara County 86 kmSan Joaquin County 87 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 4.4 (mw)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
31787 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 28 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 286 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 31787 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 56 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 3,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.4 about 56 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 120× more

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 37.8552, -122.2568. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 38 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Marin County, CA 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Mateo County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Solano County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Francisco County, CA 70 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Francisco 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. 1.6 2km E of Danville, CA
  2. 3.3 2km ENE of Danville, CA
  3. 1.6 1km WNW of Diablo, CA
  4. 1.9 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  5. 2.8 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  6. 2.0 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  7. 1.7 2km W of Diablo, CA
  8. 2.1 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  9. 1.7 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  10. 2.6 2km W of Diablo, CA
  11. 2.1 2km W of Diablo, CA
  12. 1.8 2km W of Diablo, CA
  13. 2.3 2km WSW of Diablo, CA
  14. 1.7 2km E of Hayward, CA
  15. 1.5 2km WNW of Diablo, 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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