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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

8km S of Blue Lake, CA

· 21 km deep · released about 22 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 12 kmTrinity County 74 kmDel Norte County 105 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2626 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 22 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 680,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 480,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 43× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 22 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 40.8095, -123.9648. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 12 km (7 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 74 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Del Norte County, CA 105 km (65 mi) S 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

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

  1. 2.0 38km W of Hayfork, CA
  2. 2.6 3km WNW of Hydesville, CA
  3. 1.8 19km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  4. 2.9 11km SE of Weitchpec, CA
  5. 2.5 8km SW of McKinleyville, CA
  6. 2.0 11km SSW of Ferndale, CA
  7. 1.6 9km ESE of Hydesville, CA
  8. 1.9 10km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  9. 1.6 11km SSW of Rio Dell, CA
  10. 2.1 13km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  11. 1.8 6km WNW of Ferndale, CA
  12. 1.7 17km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  13. 3.2 13km ESE of Blue Lake, CA
  14. 2.0 8km E of Hydesville, CA
  15. 2.4 14km WNW of Bayview, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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