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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

11km E of Hidden Valley Lake, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 33 kmLake County 44 kmColusa County 46 kmYolo County 48 kmSonoma County 52 kmSutter County 69 kmSolano County 72 kmMarin County 86 kmGlenn County 90 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 33 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2509 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 77 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 77 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 38.7892, -122.4362. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 33 km (20 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Lake County, CA 44 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 46 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Yolo County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Sonoma County, CA 52 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Sutter County, CA 69 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sutter County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 2.1 2km SE of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.7 15km E of Angwin, CA
  4. 1.8 14km ESE of Angwin, CA
  5. 1.6 14km E of Angwin, CA
  6. 1.7 5km W of Cobb, CA
  7. 1.5 13km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.9 9km NNE of Napa, CA
  9. 2.5 4km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 2.5 7km WNW of Yountville, CA
  11. 2.3 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 2.8 8km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.9 6km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.6 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.5 4km SSW of Anderson Springs, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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