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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

9km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA

· 4.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 23 kmTrinity County 68 kmTehama County 70 kmSiskiyou County 95 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
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 23 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2537 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 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 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 40.7492, -122.3142. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 68 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 70 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 95 km (59 mi) S of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 4km WSW of Shasta Lake, CA
  2. 1.6 16km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  3. 1.6 2km WSW of Shasta Lake, CA
  4. 2.3 6km SE of French Gulch, CA
  5. 1.6 15km ESE of Anderson, CA
  6. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  7. 1.7 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  8. 1.8 11km NW of Shingletown, CA
  9. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  10. 1.6 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  11. 1.6 11km WNW of Big Bend, CA
  12. 1.6 4km NNW of Palo Cedro, CA
  13. 1.7 16km NNW of Shingletown, CA
  14. 1.6 16km NNW of Shingletown, CA
  15. 1.8 11km NW of Viola, 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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