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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

3km W of Delleker, CA

· 4.8 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sierra County 26 kmPlumas County 32 kmNevada County 61 kmPlacer County 85 kmYuba County 92 kmButte County 93 kmStorey County 95 kmCarson City 99 kmLassen 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
4.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sierra County, 26 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3023 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 39.8095, -120.5288. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sierra County, CA 26 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 32 km (20 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Nevada County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Placer County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Placer County
Yuba County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Yuba County
Butte County, CA 93 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 9 km N of Greenhorn, California
  2. 1.8 9 km NW of Loyalton, California
  3. 2.2 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  4. 1.8 4km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  5. 2.9 4km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  6. 1.8 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  7. 1.6 4 km SSE of Taylorsville, California
  8. 2.3 27km SE of Honey Lake, CA
  9. 1.5 9 km S of Taylorsville, California
  10. 1.7 8 km NNE of Calpine, California
  11. 2.4 4km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  12. 2.2 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  13. 1.8 6km SSE of Taylorsville, CA
  14. 2.4 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  15. 1.8 8km NNE of East Quincy, 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 4.5 on 2016-08-04 — it released about 7,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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