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M 2.0md

2km ENE of Shasta Lake, CA

· 20 km deep · released about 35 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 27 kmTehama County 63 kmTrinity County 65 kmSiskiyou County 101 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Shasta County, 27 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3132 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 35 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 5.8 440,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 28× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 35 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 40.6875, -122.3432. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 27 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 63 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 65 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Siskiyou County, CA 101 km (63 mi) S of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Butte County, CA 130 km (81 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte 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 WSW of Shingletown, CA
  2. 1.8 1km SW of Palo Cedro, CA
  3. 1.9 2km SSE of Palo Cedro, CA
  4. 1.5 20km WSW of Manton, CA
  5. 1.6 1km SSW of Palo Cedro, CA
  6. 1.7 9km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA
  7. 1.6 1km NNW of Shasta Lake, CA
  8. 1.6 24km N of Shasta Lake, CA
  9. 1.6 17km SE of Anderson, CA
  10. 1.7 11km NNE of Shingletown, CA
  11. 1.6 12km NNE of Shingletown, CA
  12. 1.9 4km WSW of Bella Vista, CA
  13. 2.8 6km WSW of Bella Vista, CA
  14. 1.7 6km ENE of Shingletown, CA
  15. 1.7 22km SSW of Dunsmuir, 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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