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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

9km ENE of Lower Lake, CA

· 1.9 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 29 kmColusa County 36 kmNapa County 50 kmSonoma County 58 kmYolo County 59 kmSutter County 70 kmGlenn County 75 kmSolano County 89 kmMendocino County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
1.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 29 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2392 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 38.9305, -122.5067. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 29 km (18 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 36 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 58 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Yolo County, CA 59 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Sutter County, CA 70 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sutter County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3km SW of Cobb, CA
  2. 2.9 3km SE of The Geysers, CA
  3. 2.7 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 2.1 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.5 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.8 2km SSW of Cobb, CA
  7. 2.1 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.7 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.6 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 2.1 7km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 2.3 5km W of Cobb, CA
  12. 2.0 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 2.5 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  14. 1.6 9km WNW of Cobb, 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 170,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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