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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

4km NE of Angwin, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 13 kmSonoma County 45 kmYolo County 45 kmSolano County 56 kmLake County 63 kmColusa County 66 kmMarin County 68 kmSutter County 78 kmContra Costa County 86 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3004 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 38.6037, -122.4153. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Yolo County, CA 45 km (28 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Solano County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Lake County, CA 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 9km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 2.3 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 2.3 1km E of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.8 10km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  5. 1.6 3km W of Anderson Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 2km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 3.4 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.9 10km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.5 1km E of The Geysers, CA
  13. 2.1 2km SE of Anderson Springs, CA
  14. 2.3 3km NNW of Larkfield-Wikiup, CA
  15. 1.7 3km WSW 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 72,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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