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M 3.7mw

67km WNW of Ferndale, CA

Yes. A magnitude 3.7 earthquake was recorded 67km WNW of Ferndale, CA, at 10:08 am PDT on 22 July 2019 (17:08 UTC), 23 km deep. 20 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

· 23 km deep · released about 6.1 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.7 (mw)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
20 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Humboldt County, 93 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2596 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 75 km (47 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 28,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 6.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 13× more

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.1 on 2017-07-29 — about 100 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 19 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.5 The 2010 Eureka, California Earthquake · 30 km ESE of this epicentre
  2. 6.3 67 km W of Trinidad, California · 33 km N of this epicentre
  3. 6.0 near the coast of Northern California · 20 km E of this epicentre
  4. 6.0 33 km WSW of Ferndale, California · 41 km SE of this epicentre
  5. 5.9 61 km WSW of Ferndale, California · 37 km S of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 40.7413, -125.0242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Humboldt County, CA 93 km (58 mi) E earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 142 km (88 mi) NE earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 65km W of Petrolia, CA
  2. 2.4 65km W of Petrolia, CA
  3. 2.8 63km W of Petrolia, CA
  4. 2.3 52km W of Ferndale, CA
  5. 5.8 69km W of Petrolia, CA
  6. 2.6 72km W of Petrolia, CA
  7. 2.5 65km W of Petrolia, CA
  8. 2.5 63km W of Petrolia, CA
  9. 2.4 54km W of Petrolia, CA
  10. 2.9 51km W of Ferndale, CA
  11. 2.9 28km W of Ferndale, CA
  12. 3.2 33km WNW of Petrolia, CA
  13. 2.7 41km WNW of Petrolia, CA
  14. 2.6 44km WNW of Petrolia, CA
  15. 2.5 55km W of Petrolia, 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.

On USGS

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