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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

2km SE of Rodeo, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 29 kmSolano County 39 kmMarin County 43 kmAlameda County 51 kmNapa County 54 kmSan Mateo County 68 kmSan Francisco County 76 kmYolo County 80 kmSonoma County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 29 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3124 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 38.0202, -122.2557. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 29 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Marin County, CA 43 km (27 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Alameda County, CA 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Napa County, CA 54 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
San Mateo County, CA 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Mateo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4km NNW of Foster City, CA
  2. 2.2 3km ENE of Oakland, CA
  3. 2.1 2km ENE of San Ramon, CA
  4. 3.5 3km ENE of Oakland, CA
  5. 1.8 2km ENE of San Ramon, CA
  6. 1.6 2km ENE of San Ramon, CA
  7. 2.0 3km W of Pittsburg, CA
  8. 2.0 7km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  9. 1.5 1km ENE of Diablo, CA
  10. 2.5 2km ENE of Danville, CA
  11. 2.2 3km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  12. 1.5 2km E of Danville, CA
  13. 2.6 5km NNW of Diablo, CA
  14. 3.3 5km NE of Alamo, CA
  15. 1.9 2km ENE of Danville, 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 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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