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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

15km E of Angwin, CA

· 2.6 km deep · released about 9.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 7 kmYolo County 35 kmSolano County 44 kmSonoma County 56 kmColusa County 68 kmMarin County 70 kmSutter County 73 kmLake County 73 kmContra Costa County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 7 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2396 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 9.6 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 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 99× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.6 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 38.5643, -122.2815. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 7 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yolo County, CA 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Solano County, CA 44 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Sonoma County, CA 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 68 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Marin County, CA 70 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Marin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4km SE of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.6 14km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  3. 1.8 4km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  4. 1.8 2km SSW of Cobb, CA
  5. 2.5 12km ESE of Angwin, CA
  6. 2.0 4km NNW of Larkfield-Wikiup, CA
  7. 1.9 4km SSE of Elmira, CA
  8. 2.1 11km ENE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  9. 1.6 1km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.8 5km NNW of Green Valley, CA
  11. 1.7 14km ENE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  12. 1.8 2km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.8 3km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  14. 1.6 5km NE of Kenwood, CA
  15. 2.3 16km SE of Hidden Valley Lake, 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 4.2 on 2018-01-18 — it released about 6,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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