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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

16km N of McCloud, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Siskiyou County 38 kmShasta County 72 kmTrinity 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Siskiyou County, 38 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2621 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 41.4025, -122.1540. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Siskiyou County, CA 38 km (23 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Shasta County, CA 72 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 116 km (72 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Jackson County, OR 120 km (75 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Modoc County, CA 121 km (75 mi) W of here earthquakes near Modoc County
Josephine County, OR 160 km (100 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Josephine County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 13km ENE of Carrick, CA
  2. 2.0 7km ESE of McCloud, CA
  3. 1.6 4km W of Edgewood, CA
  4. 1.5 10km S of McCloud, CA
  5. 2.6 23km SW of Mount Hebron, CA
  6. 2.5 13km SE of Dunsmuir, CA
  7. 1.8 9km E of McCloud, CA
  8. 1.7 14km S of Dunsmuir, CA
  9. 1.7 20km ESE of McCloud, CA
  10. 2.0 18km ESE of McCloud, CA
  11. 1.9 13km S of Dunsmuir, CA
  12. 2.3 16km ESE of McCloud, CA
  13. 1.8 9km N of McCloud, CA
  14. 1.8 9km N of McCloud, CA
  15. 1.9 10km N of McCloud, 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.

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