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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

15km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 3.8 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 43 kmMendocino County 48 kmLake County 49 kmColusa County 69 kmTehama County 87 kmButte County 112 kmSonoma County 112 kmSutter County 116 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
3.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 43 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2666 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 26 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 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 39.5298, -122.8932. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 48 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 69 km (43 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 87 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Butte County, CA 112 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 14km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 1.6 13km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 1.8 8km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 1.9 1km SSW of Redwood Valley, CA
  5. 1.8 4km NE of Talmage, CA
  6. 1.6 1km ENE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.7 6km SW of Upper Lake, CA
  8. 2.4 8km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 1.6 9km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  10. 1.6 16km NE of Willits, CA
  11. 1.6 12km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 2.3 15km NNE of Alder Springs, CA
  13. 2.0 14km NNE of Alder Springs, CA
  14. 2.1 12km N of Alder Springs, CA
  15. 1.5 6km ESE of Willits, 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 50,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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