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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

15km NE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA

· 23 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 49 kmDel Norte County 67 kmTrinity County 92 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
15 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Humboldt County, 49 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2892 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 15 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× 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 41.1455, -123.9838. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 49 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Trinity County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 3km NW of Willow Creek, CA
  2. 2.4 20km NW of Bayview, CA
  3. 2.7 1km NNE of Humboldt Hill, CA
  4. 2.8 11km NW of Eureka, CA
  5. 2.8 22km NW of Weitchpec, CA
  6. 2.2 4km NW of Humboldt Hill, CA
  7. 2.3 1km ENE of Humboldt Hill, CA
  8. 2.2 12km E of Blue Lake, CA
  9. 2.4 20km NE of Willow Creek, CA
  10. 2.1 9km NW of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 2.3 15km WSW of Willow Creek, CA
  12. 2.6 1km SE of McKinleyville, CA
  13. 3.1 14km SE of Klamath, CA
  14. 1.8 16km NW of Bayview, CA
  15. 1.8 13km E of Willow Creek, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 270 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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