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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.7mw

10km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 4.7 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.7 (mw)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
4337 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Marin County, 30 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1741 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4337 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 36,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 4.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 9.8× more

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 38.0828, -122.4097. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 30 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Contra Costa County, CA 44 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 46 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Napa County, CA 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
Alameda County, CA 65 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Sonoma County, CA 67 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 1km NW of Crockett, CA
  2. 1.6 2km NW of Crockett, CA
  3. 2.7 2km NW of Crockett, CA
  4. 3.5 2km NW of Crockett, CA
  5. 2.0 4km E of El Sobrante, CA
  6. 2.5 3km ESE of San Leandro, CA
  7. 1.6 2km W of Diablo, CA
  8. 1.6 4km NE of Vallejo, CA
  9. 1.5 4km NE of Saint Helena, CA
  10. 2.0 14km N of Pittsburg, CA
  11. 2.2 1km NNW of Alamo, CA
  12. 1.6 2km SW of Diablo, CA
  13. 1.6 7km NE of Rohnert Park, CA
  14. 1.7 7km NE of Rohnert Park, CA
  15. 2.2 5km E of Kenwood, 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 4.4 on 2018-01-04 — it released about 12 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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