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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

2km SSE of American Canyon, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Solano County 30 kmContra Costa County 37 kmNapa County 40 kmMarin County 45 kmAlameda County 64 kmYolo County 66 kmSonoma County 72 kmSan Mateo County 83 kmSan Francisco County 84 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Solano County, 30 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2561 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 38.1543, -122.2488. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Solano County, CA 30 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Contra Costa County, CA 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Napa County, CA 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Alameda County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Yolo County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 7km WSW of St. Helena, CA
  2. 1.7 14km E of Angwin, CA
  3. 1.8 14km E of Angwin, CA
  4. 1.9 5km NNW of Pittsburg, CA
  5. 1.7 14km E of Angwin, CA
  6. 2.4 6km N of Diablo, CA
  7. 1.6 1km WNW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  8. 3.2 0km WNW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  9. 1.8 1km NW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  10. 1.7 1km SSW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  11. 2.6 1km SSW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  12. 2.1 1km S of Pleasant Hill, CA
  13. 1.7 1km SSW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  14. 1.6 1km SSW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  15. 2.0 1km SSE of Pleasant Hill, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2018-01-04 — it released about 9,100 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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