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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

15km NNW of Laytonville, CA

· 7.6 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 43 kmTrinity County 100 kmGlenn County 101 kmHumboldt County 104 kmLake County 104 kmTehama 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 43 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2938 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 39.8138, -123.5473. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 43 km (27 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Trinity County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 101 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Humboldt County, CA 104 km (65 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Lake County, CA 104 km (65 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Tehama County, CA 117 km (73 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 12km N of Brooktrails, CA
  2. 1.5 14km SE of Covelo, CA
  3. 1.9 8km NE of Willits, CA
  4. 1.5 24km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.8 7km ENE of Brooktrails, CA
  6. 1.8 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  7. 1.7 15km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  8. 2.4 15km N of Brooktrails, CA
  9. 1.6 7km NE of Brooktrails, CA
  10. 1.5 6km NW of Redway, CA
  11. 2.1 7km NE of Fort Bragg, CA
  12. 1.6 21km SE of Covelo, CA
  13. 2.1 6km NW of Redway, CA
  14. 1.9 4km NNW of Redway, CA
  15. 1.5 36km N of Covelo, 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 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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