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M 2.2md

5km N of Fort Bragg, CA

· 6.4 km deep · released about 67 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 32 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2959 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 67 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 67 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 39.4888, -123.8117. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 32 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 101 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 132 km (82 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2km SW of Laytonville, CA
  2. 2.1 3km ESE of Rockport, CA
  3. 1.7 16km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  4. 1.8 16km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  5. 3.2 18km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  6. 1.8 15km SE of Rockport, CA
  7. 1.5 6km ESE of Willits, CA
  8. 1.7 13km SE of Laytonville, CA
  9. 1.6 4km SE of Willits, CA
  10. 2.0 7km ENE of Brooktrails, CA
  11. 1.8 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  12. 1.8 3km N of Brooktrails, CA
  13. 1.6 10km SE of Willits, CA
  14. 2.0 8km SE of Willits, CA
  15. 1.6 12km N of Brooktrails, 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 4.3 on 2017-12-14 — it released about 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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