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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

18km E of Angwin, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 10 kmYolo County 32 kmSolano County 43 kmSonoma County 59 kmColusa County 67 kmSutter County 70 kmMarin County 73 kmLake County 74 kmContra Costa County 77 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 10 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2623 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 38.5718, -122.2453. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 10 km (6 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yolo County, CA 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Solano County, CA 43 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Sonoma County, CA 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sutter County, CA 70 km (43 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sutter County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2km SSE of American Canyon, CA
  2. 2.4 6km NE of Kenwood, CA
  3. 2.8 4km SSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  4. 1.6 1km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.9 13km E of Angwin, CA
  6. 1.5 5km SE of Calistoga, CA
  7. 1.6 13km E of Angwin, CA
  8. 1.7 14km E of Angwin, CA
  9. 1.6 4km ESE of Kenwood, CA
  10. 2.4 4km NNW of Green Valley, CA
  11. 1.6 12km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  12. 1.6 10km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  13. 3.6 10km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  14. 1.8 0km E of The Geysers, CA
  15. 2.1 5km ENE of Kenwood, 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 4.2 on 2018-01-18 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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