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M 2.0md

14km NNE of Alder Springs, CA

· 43 km deep · released about 35 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 29 kmTehama County 54 kmLake County 74 kmColusa County 75 kmMendocino County 76 kmButte County 92 kmTrinity County 105 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
43 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 29 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2605 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 35 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 5.8 440,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 28× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 35 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 39.7688, -122.6698. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Tehama County, CA 54 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Lake County, CA 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 75 km (47 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Mendocino County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Butte County, CA 92 km (57 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

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

  1. 1.9 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 1.9 18km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 2.2 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 1.9 41km NE of Covelo, CA
  5. 1.8 30km NE of Covelo, CA
  6. 1.8 4km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.8 13km SSE of Covelo, CA
  8. 1.6 24km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  9. 2.6 23km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  10. 1.6 30km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  11. 1.8 27km ENE of Covelo, CA
  12. 2.1 30km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  13. 1.5 13km SE of Covelo, CA
  14. 1.6 13km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  15. 1.6 16km N of Lake Pillsbury, 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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