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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

16km N of Laytonville, CA

· 5.5 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 44 kmGlenn County 95 kmTrinity County 96 kmLake County 102 kmHumboldt County 105 kmTehama County 111 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 44 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2407 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 26 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 39.8273, -123.4788. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Glenn County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Trinity County, CA 96 km (60 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Lake County, CA 102 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Humboldt County, CA 105 km (65 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Tehama County, CA 111 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 12km NW of Covelo, CA
  2. 1.7 12km NW of Covelo, CA
  3. 3.1 12km NW of Covelo, CA
  4. 1.9 12km NW of Covelo, CA
  5. 3.0 13km NW of Covelo, CA
  6. 1.9 4km ESE of Redway, CA
  7. 1.5 20km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 1.9 9km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  9. 1.5 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  10. 1.7 21km SE of Covelo, CA
  11. 2.1 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 2.0 20km NE of Brooktrails, CA
  13. 1.9 21km NNE of Rockport, CA
  14. 2.2 21km NNE of Rockport, CA
  15. 1.9 20km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, 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 4.3 on 2017-12-14 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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