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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

9km SE of Dunsmuir, CA

· -1.6 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 45 kmSiskiyou County 57 kmTrinity County 95 kmTehama County 114 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
-1.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 45 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2585 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 6.2 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 41.1483, -122.1920. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Siskiyou County, CA 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Trinity County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 114 km (71 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 9km N of McCloud, CA
  2. 1.9 10km N of McCloud, CA
  3. 1.7 10km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  4. 1.6 16km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  5. 2.4 23km S of Tennant, CA
  6. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  7. 1.7 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  8. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  9. 1.6 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  10. 1.6 11km WNW of Big Bend, CA
  11. 1.6 12km N of McCloud, CA
  12. 2.5 16km ESE of McCloud, CA
  13. 1.8 9km NNW of McCloud, CA
  14. 1.7 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  15. 2.1 2km ENE of Dunsmuir, 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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