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M 3.2ml

6km WSW of Klamath, CA

· 31 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Del Norte County 28 kmHumboldt County 90 kmJosephine County 107 kmCurry County 107 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Del Norte County, 28 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 565 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.2× more

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 41.5060, -124.0773. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Del Norte County, CA 28 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Humboldt County, CA 90 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Josephine County, OR 107 km (66 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Curry County, OR 107 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Curry County
Trinity County, CA 125 km (78 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Jackson County, OR 154 km (95 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Jackson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 20 km SE of Klamath, CA
  2. 2.3 4 km ENE of Trinidad, CA
  3. 1.9 12 km NE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA
  4. 2.2 14 km NNW of Trinidad, CA
  5. 3.2 28 km NW of Trinidad, CA
  6. 2.4 14 km SSW of Crescent City, CA
  7. 2.3 17 km NNW of Trinidad, CA
  8. 2.1 12 km NE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA
  9. 2.5 14 km SSW of Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
  10. 1.9 12 km WSW of Smith River, California
  11. 2.8 18 km SSE of Klamath, CA
  12. 2.7 13 km SSW of Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
  13. 2.6 18 km SSW of Brookings, OR
  14. 2.2 6 km W of Klamath, CA
  15. 2.5 17 km SSE of Klamath, 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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