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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5km E of San Ramon, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alameda County 15 kmContra Costa County 16 kmSolano County 54 kmSan Mateo County 57 kmSan Joaquin County 60 kmSanta Clara County 66 kmMarin County 78 kmStanislaus County 85 kmSanta Cruz County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alameda County, 15 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2760 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× 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 7.6 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 37.7810, -121.9262. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alameda County, CA 15 km (9 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Contra Costa County, CA 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 54 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Mateo County, CA 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
San Joaquin County, CA 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
Santa Clara County, CA 66 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 9km NNE of Alum Rock, CA
  2. 1.5 9km NNE of Alum Rock, CA
  3. 2.9 4km N of Rodeo, CA
  4. 1.8 2km NE of San Leandro, CA
  5. 2.3 2km SSE of Concord, CA
  6. 2.0 3km E of Union City, CA
  7. 1.7 5km WNW of Sunol, CA
  8. 1.7 2km NNW of San Leandro, CA
  9. 1.7 3km WNW of Diablo, CA
  10. 2.3 8km E of Alum Rock, CA
  11. 1.7 11km SE of Livermore, CA
  12. 1.8 2km E of Berkeley, CA
  13. 1.6 5km SW of Pacheco, CA
  14. 2.7 3km NNE of San Ramon, CA
  15. 2.4 1km N of Vine Hill, 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 4.4 on 2018-01-04 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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