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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

1km WNW of Pleasant Hill, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 11 kmAlameda County 36 kmSolano County 37 kmMarin County 61 kmSan Mateo County 65 kmNapa County 66 kmSan Joaquin County 70 kmYolo County 82 kmSacramento 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 11 km ESE
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. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.4 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 2,400,000× 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 1.6 about 6.4 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 37.9495, -122.0668. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 36 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 37 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Marin County, CA 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Mateo County, CA 65 km (41 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Napa County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 5km E of Vallejo, CA
  2. 1.9 4km SSE of Elmira, CA
  3. 1.8 5km NNW of Green Valley, CA
  4. 1.6 3km ESE of Hayward, CA
  5. 2.3 2km ENE of El Cerrito, CA
  6. 2.1 1km NNE of Piedmont, CA
  7. 2.6 0km S of East Richmond Heights, CA
  8. 2.4 4km N of Lafayette, CA
  9. 1.7 4km N of Lafayette, CA
  10. 2.4 2km E of Pacheco, CA
  11. 2.0 1km ESE of Pacheco, CA
  12. 1.9 5km NNW of San Leandro, CA
  13. 1.9 5km NE of Fairview, CA
  14. 1.6 10km ENE of Blackhawk, CA
  15. 1.6 5km NE of Fairview, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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