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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

26km WSW of Hayfork, CA

· 26 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 37 kmHumboldt County 50 kmTehama County 109 kmMendocino County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Trinity County, 37 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2298 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 94 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 94 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 40.4380, -123.4552. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 37 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 50 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Tehama County, CA 109 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Mendocino County, CA 112 km (69 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Shasta County, CA 124 km (77 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Glenn County, CA 129 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn 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. 4.0 20km ENE of Redway, CA
  2. 2.7 41km NNE of Covelo, CA
  3. 2.2 7km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  4. 1.8 35km S of Willow Creek, CA
  5. 2.3 26km S of Hayfork, CA
  6. 1.9 29km NE of Redway, CA
  7. 1.8 27km SSE of Blue Lake, CA
  8. 2.0 19km NE of Redway, CA
  9. 2.1 24km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  10. 2.4 34km E of Hydesville, CA
  11. 2.2 34km E of Hydesville, CA
  12. 2.1 27km SE of Hayfork, CA
  13. 1.8 34km NNE of Redway, CA
  14. 2.3 29km NNW of Hayfork, CA
  15. 2.2 30km E of Rio Dell, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 5,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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