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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

4km SE of Boonville, CA

· 3.8 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 51 kmLake County 52 kmSonoma County 62 kmColusa County 97 kmNapa County 102 kmGlenn County 105 kmMarin County 115 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
3.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 51 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2445 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 38.9833, -123.3302. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 52 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 97 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 102 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Glenn County, CA 105 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.6 6km NE of Cloverdale, CA
  3. 1.9 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.5 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 2.0 7km W of Cobb, CA
  7. 1.5 7km W of Cobb, CA
  8. 3.7 7km W of Cobb, CA
  9. 1.5 7km WNW of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.7 6km WNW of Cobb, CA
  11. 3.7 6km WNW of Cobb, CA
  12. 2.8 6km W of Cobb, CA
  13. 2.1 11km NNE of Talmage, CA
  14. 2.1 4km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  15. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, 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 120,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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