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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

18km ESE of Weitchpec, CA

· 31 km deep · released about 630 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 57 kmTrinity County 62 kmDel Norte County 81 kmSiskiyou County 97 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 2.9 (md)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Humboldt County, 57 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2318 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 630 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 24,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 630 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 41.1143, -123.5152. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Del Norte County, CA 81 km (50 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 97 km (61 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Tehama County, CA 154 km (96 mi) NW 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. 2.3 22km SSE of Willow Creek, CA
  2. 2.2 22km SSE of Willow Creek, CA
  3. 3.5 16km NE of Willow Creek, CA
  4. 3.0 19km SE of Willow Creek, CA
  5. 2.4 11km WSW of Willow Creek, CA
  6. 2.6 5km SW of Somes Bar, CA
  7. 2.2 24km NW of Hayfork, CA
  8. 2.8 7km W of Weitchpec, CA
  9. 2.9 29km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  10. 2.3 10km SE of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 1.8 11km SSE of Blue Lake, CA
  12. 2.2 9km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  13. 2.4 21km SSE of Willow Creek, CA
  14. 2.5 16km SSE of Somes Bar, CA
  15. 2.5 8km E of Willow Creek, 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 4.4 on 2019-02-06 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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