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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

5km NNW of Somes Bar, CA

· 39 km deep · released about 180 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Del Norte County 54 kmSiskiyou County 83 kmHumboldt County 87 kmTrinity County 91 kmJosephine County 108 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Del Norte County, 54 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2701 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 180 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 83,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 59,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 180 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 41.4165, -123.5022. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Del Norte County, CA 54 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 83 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Humboldt County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 91 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Josephine County, OR 108 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Jackson County, OR 130 km (81 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Jackson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 38 km E of Willow Creek, CA
  2. 2.3 29 km ESE of Weitchpec, CA
  3. 2.8 18 km SSE of Klamath, CA
  4. 2.6 23 km ESE of Weitchpec, CA
  5. 1.6 18 km W of Happy Camp, California
  6. 2.5 17 km SSE of Klamath, CA
  7. 3.0 17 km SSE of Klamath, CA
  8. 2.4 19 km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  9. 2.6 21 km SSE of Somes Bar, CA
  10. 2.4 30 km SSE of Somes Bar, CA
  11. 2.9 8 km S of Somes Bar, CA
  12. 2.7 33 km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  13. 2.2 32 km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  14. 2.3 17 km NE of Willow Creek, CA
  15. 2.4 14 km SE of Weitchpec, 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.

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