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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

16km NW of Alder Springs, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 42 kmMendocino County 63 kmTehama County 66 kmLake County 73 kmColusa County 83 kmTrinity County 101 kmButte 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 42 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2427 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 9.3 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 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 39.7617, -122.8450. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Tehama County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Lake County, CA 73 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 83 km (52 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Trinity County, CA 101 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 9km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  2. 1.5 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  3. 1.7 21km SE of Covelo, CA
  4. 2.1 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 2.0 20km NE of Brooktrails, CA
  6. 1.9 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.6 18km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 1.9 18km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 2.2 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  10. 1.9 41km NE of Covelo, CA
  11. 1.8 30km NE of Covelo, CA
  12. 1.7 11km SE of Laytonville, CA
  13. 2.4 9km W of Covelo, CA
  14. 1.8 4km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.8 13km SSE of Covelo, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 140,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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