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M 1.7md

6km NE of Shasta Lake, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 23 kmTehama County 66 kmTrinity County 68 kmSiskiyou County 98 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
17 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 2523 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 40.7203, -122.3155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 23 km (15 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 68 km (42 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Siskiyou County, CA 98 km (61 mi) S of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Butte County, CA 132 km (82 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

51 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. 1.5 5km WSW of Manton, CA
  4. 1.6 2km WSW of Shasta Lake, CA
  5. 2.3 6km SE of French Gulch, CA
  6. 1.6 15km ESE of Anderson, CA
  7. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  8. 1.7 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  9. 1.8 11km NW of Shingletown, CA
  10. 1.6 7km SSW of Big Bend, CA
  11. 1.6 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  12. 1.6 11km WNW of Big Bend, CA
  13. 1.6 4km NNW of Palo Cedro, CA
  14. 1.7 16km NNW of Shingletown, CA
  15. 1.6 16km NNW of Shingletown, 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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