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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

42km NNE of Covelo, CA

· 39 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 56 kmTehama County 72 kmGlenn County 83 kmMendocino County 85 kmHumboldt County 95 kmShasta County 111 kmLake County 119 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Trinity County, 56 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2958 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 40.1433, -123.0752. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 56 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 72 km (45 mi) W of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Glenn County, CA 83 km (52 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Humboldt County, CA 95 km (59 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Shasta County, CA 111 km (69 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Shasta 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. 2.4 14km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  2. 1.8 23km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  3. 1.8 16km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  4. 1.6 24km W of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  5. 2.6 17km SSE of Hayfork, CA
  6. 2.0 42km N of Covelo, CA
  7. 1.8 16km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  8. 1.6 30km NE of Covelo, CA
  9. 1.7 30km NE of Covelo, CA
  10. 1.7 36km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  11. 1.5 14km SE of Covelo, CA
  12. 1.6 34km WNW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  13. 1.5 36km N of Covelo, CA
  14. 2.0 34km NE of Redway, CA
  15. 1.6 22km NW of Alder Springs, 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 4.5 on 2016-08-28 — it released about 3,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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