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M 3.1ml

6km WSW of Lower Lake, CA

· 3.4 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 24 kmSonoma County 46 kmColusa County 49 kmNapa County 53 kmYolo County 72 kmGlenn County 82 kmSutter County 86 kmMendocino County 89 kmMarin 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
236 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Lake County, 24 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2693 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 236 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 12,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 8,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 38.8952, -122.6802. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 24 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 46 km (29 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 49 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 53 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yolo County, CA 72 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Glenn County, CA 82 km (51 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 6km SE of Calistoga, CA
  2. 1.6 4km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.8 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  4. 1.9 7km NE of Healdsburg, CA
  5. 1.8 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  6. 1.7 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.9 7km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.5 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 2.6 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.6 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.7 7km NNW of Kenwood, CA
  12. 1.8 3km NW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.9 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.6 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  15. 1.6 3km SE of The Geysers, 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 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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