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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

4km WNW of San Francisco Zoo, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marin County 39 kmSan Mateo County 39 kmSan Francisco County 43 kmContra Costa County 56 kmAlameda County 57 kmSolano County 79 kmNapa County 87 kmSonoma County 93 kmSanta Cruz County 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 39 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3158 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 7.8 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 1,400,000× 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 7.8 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 37.7413, -122.5472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 39 km (24 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Mateo County, CA 39 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
San Francisco County, CA 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Francisco County
Contra Costa County, CA 56 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 57 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 79 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Solano County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 3km N of Piedmont, CA
  2. 1.9 10km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  3. 3.7 10km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  4. 1.6 6km WNW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  5. 2.0 4km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  6. 1.8 3km E of Hayward, CA
  7. 1.6 3km NW of Castro Valley, CA
  8. 2.9 2km NW of Castro Valley, CA
  9. 1.7 7km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  10. 2.0 3km N of San Leandro, CA
  11. 2.3 3km N of Rodeo, CA
  12. 1.6 1km SW of Alamo, CA
  13. 1.9 3km NE of Orinda, CA
  14. 1.9 3km NE of Orinda, CA
  15. 1.8 3km W of Orinda, 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 4.4 on 2018-01-04 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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