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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

17km NNW of Shingletown, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 16 kmTehama County 63 kmTrinity County 100 kmLassen County 111 kmButte County 112 kmSiskiyou County 117 kmPlumas County 119 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
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 16 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2574 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 40.6425, -121.9320. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 16 km (10 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 100 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Lassen County, CA 111 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Butte County, CA 112 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte County
Siskiyou County, CA 117 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 11km NW of Viola, CA
  2. 1.9 16km ESE of Anderson, CA
  3. 1.8 5km SE of Bella Vista, CA
  4. 1.7 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  5. 1.9 5km WNW of Bella Vista, CA
  6. 1.6 15km NNE of Shingletown, CA
  7. 1.7 9km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA
  8. 2.1 4km W of Bella Vista, CA
  9. 1.6 5km ESE of Redding, CA
  10. 1.7 4km SE of Redding, CA
  11. 2.0 16km NW of Viola, CA
  12. 1.7 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  13. 1.6 17km N of Burney, CA
  14. 1.5 8km WNW of Burney, CA
  15. 2.4 26km WNW of Montgomery Creek, 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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