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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

9km SSW of Calistoga, CA

· 8.0 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 26 kmNapa County 26 kmMarin County 52 kmSolano County 66 kmYolo County 66 kmLake County 68 kmColusa County 82 kmContra Costa County 88 kmSan Francisco County 94 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sonoma County, 26 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2894 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 38.5062, -122.6283. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 26 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 52 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Solano County, CA 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Yolo County, CA 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Lake County, CA 68 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.6 3km WSW of Cobb, CA
  3. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.9 1km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.5 7km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.8 6km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.5 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.9 10km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 2.5 10km WNW of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.9 3km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  11. 1.6 6km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.7 10km SW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.6 1km NE of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.7 9km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.9 6km WNW of Cobb, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 70,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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