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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

6km SW of Upper Lake, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 91 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 19 kmMendocino County 53 kmColusa County 63 kmSonoma County 67 kmGlenn County 72 kmNapa County 89 kmYolo County 105 kmSutter County 110 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Lake County, 19 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2715 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 91 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 91 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 39.1303, -122.9678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 19 km (12 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Colusa County, CA 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Glenn County, CA 72 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 89 km (55 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

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

  1. 2.1 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  2. 2.6 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  3. 2.0 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 7km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 1.8 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.8 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.6 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.8 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.9 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.9 2km SSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  12. 1.5 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 2.1 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 3.0 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.8 6km NW 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 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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