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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

19km WSW of Williams, CA

· 2.8 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colusa County 13 kmLake County 33 kmGlenn County 54 kmSutter County 58 kmYolo County 63 kmNapa County 68 kmSonoma County 81 kmButte County 90 kmYuba County 90 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
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Colusa County, 13 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3111 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 26 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 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 39.1138, -122.3668. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colusa County, CA 13 km (8 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Lake County, CA 33 km (20 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 54 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Sutter County, CA 58 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sutter County
Yolo County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Napa County, CA 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6km W of Cobb, CA
  2. 1.8 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.7 5km W of Cobb, CA
  4. 1.5 4km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 1.7 4km W of Cobb, CA
  6. 1.7 9km E of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  7. 2.7 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 2.0 1km E of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.5 5km WNW of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.9 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  11. 1.9 4km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.6 17km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 1.6 3km W of Cobb, CA
  14. 1.6 17km NNE of Nice, CA
  15. 2.0 6km WNW of Cobb, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 50,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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