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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

18km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 0.3 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 28 kmLake County 55 kmGlenn County 63 kmColusa County 84 kmTehama County 103 kmSonoma County 110 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 28 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3033 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 6.4 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 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 39.5027, -123.1247. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 28 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 84 km (52 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 103 km (64 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Sonoma County, CA 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6km SE of Redwood Valley, CA
  2. 1.9 8km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 1.7 15km NE of Nice, CA
  4. 1.8 8km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  5. 2.1 14km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 1.8 14km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.6 8km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 1.7 6km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 1.7 12km SE of Laytonville, CA
  10. 1.6 10km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  11. 1.7 5km WNW of Covelo, CA
  12. 2.5 5km NE of Willits, CA
  13. 1.8 7km SE of Willits, CA
  14. 2.0 7km SE of Willits, CA
  15. 1.7 15km N of Alder Springs, 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 200,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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