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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

3km NNE of Fairview, CA

· 4.5 km deep · released about 32 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Alameda County 13 kmContra Costa County 25 kmSan Mateo County 44 kmSanta Clara County 62 kmSolano County 63 kmSan Joaquin County 72 kmMarin County 73 kmSanta Cruz County 77 kmSan Francisco County 87 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
4.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Alameda County, 13 km ESE
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 32 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 37.7073, -122.0380. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Alameda County, CA 13 km (8 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Contra Costa County, CA 25 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
San Mateo County, CA 44 km (27 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Santa Clara County, CA 62 km (39 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County
Solano County, CA 63 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Joaquin County, CA 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2km SSE of Concord, CA
  2. 2.0 3km E of Union City, CA
  3. 1.7 5km WNW of Sunol, CA
  4. 1.7 2km NNW of San Leandro, CA
  5. 1.7 3km WNW of Diablo, CA
  6. 1.5 3km S of Loyola, CA
  7. 2.3 8km E of Alum Rock, CA
  8. 1.7 11km SE of Livermore, CA
  9. 2.5 4km WSW of Colma, CA
  10. 1.8 2km E of Berkeley, CA
  11. 1.6 5km SW of Pacheco, CA
  12. 1.9 7km SSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  13. 2.7 3km NNE of San Ramon, CA
  14. 2.4 1km N of Vine Hill, CA
  15. 2.8 3km NE of Oakland, 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 3,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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