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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

22km NNW of Hayfork, CA

· 30 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 16 kmHumboldt County 57 kmShasta County 102 kmTehama County 110 kmSiskiyou County 112 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 2.9 (md)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Trinity County, 16 km SE
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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 40.7410, -123.2525. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 16 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 57 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Shasta County, CA 102 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 110 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 112 km (69 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Del Norte County, CA 128 km (79 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 34km E of Hydesville, CA
  2. 2.2 34km E of Hydesville, CA
  3. 2.1 27km SE of Hayfork, CA
  4. 2.3 29km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  5. 2.5 29km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  6. 2.1 22km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  7. 1.7 31km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  8. 2.4 29km NE of Willow Creek, CA
  9. 2.4 20km NE of Willow Creek, CA
  10. 2.1 9km NW of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 2.3 15km WSW of Willow Creek, CA
  12. 2.1 26km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  13. 2.4 8km WNW of Hayfork, CA
  14. 2.3 29km W of Hayfork, CA
  15. 2.1 28km NW of Hayfork, 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 4.5 on 2016-08-28 — it released about 240 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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