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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

14km SE of Laytonville, CA

· 8.8 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 21 kmLake County 77 kmGlenn County 82 kmColusa County 108 kmTehama County 112 kmTrinity County 117 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 21 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2951 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 7.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 39.6128, -123.3570. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 77 km (48 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 108 km (67 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 112 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 117 km (73 mi) S of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 5km ESE of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.6 9km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 1.7 6km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 2.1 12km SE of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  5. 2.0 4km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  6. 2.0 3km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 22km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  8. 1.9 7km E of Willits, CA
  9. 1.8 5km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  10. 1.9 5km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  11. 1.9 8km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 2.0 13km S of Laytonville, CA
  13. 2.6 9km SE of Redwood Valley, CA
  14. 2.1 32km NNW of Covelo, CA
  15. 2.0 8km ESE of Redwood Valley, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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