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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

20km S of Honey Lake, CA

· 8.2 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Plumas County 38 kmSierra County 55 kmLassen County 75 kmNevada County 91 kmWashoe County 97 kmStorey County 101 kmButte County 112 kmPlacer County 115 kmCarson City 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Plumas County, 38 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2984 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 40.0595, -120.3903. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Plumas County, CA 38 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 55 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Lassen County, CA 75 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Nevada County, CA 91 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Washoe County, NV 97 km (60 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Storey County, NV 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 13 km SSE of Doyle, California
  2. 1.8 3km NE of Greenville, CA
  3. 1.7 6 km N of Greenhorn, California
  4. 1.6 13 km SSE of Doyle, California
  5. 1.6 12 km NE of Chilcoot-Vinton, California
  6. 1.7 15km SSW of Susanville, CA
  7. 1.8 15km SSW of Susanville, CA
  8. 2.3 6km NNE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  9. 1.8 4km W of Taylorsville, CA
  10. 1.8 12km SW of Johnstonville, CA
  11. 2.4 15km NE of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  12. 2.2 6km WSW of Valley Ranch, CA
  13. 1.5 4 km W of Patton Village, California
  14. 2.2 5km SE of Taylorsville, CA
  15. 1.6 2 km WNW of Sattley, California

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 25,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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