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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

13km ENE of Redwood Valley, CA

· 4.6 km deep · released about 54 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 35 kmLake County 36 kmGlenn County 66 kmColusa County 73 kmSonoma County 89 kmNapa County 110 kmTehama County 115 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 2.2 (md)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Mendocino County, 35 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2746 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 54 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 280,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 54 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 39.3145, -123.0703. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 35 km (22 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 36 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 73 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 89 km (55 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 110 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 16km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 2.0 9km S of Kelseyville, CA
  3. 1.6 21km SE of Covelo, CA
  4. 2.7 16km NW of Cloverdale, CA
  5. 2.6 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  6. 1.6 5km SE of Talmage, CA
  7. 2.1 15km SW of Lakeport, CA
  8. 1.8 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  9. 2.1 9km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  11. 1.5 11km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  12. 2.1 4km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 4km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  14. 2.7 21km SE of Covelo, CA
  15. 2.4 21km SE 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 24,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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