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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

7km SE of Willow Creek, CA

· 23 km deep · released about 51 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 35 kmTrinity County 48 kmDel Norte County 101 kmSiskiyou County 117 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 35 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2274 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 51 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 51 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 40.8898, -123.5833. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 35 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Del Norte County, CA 101 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 117 km (73 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Tehama County, CA 142 km (88 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. 1.9 13km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  2. 1.7 13km E of Hydesville, CA
  3. 2.0 18km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  4. 2.3 20km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  5. 2.3 18km E of Willow Creek, CA
  6. 2.4 12km SE of Weitchpec, CA
  7. 1.6 12km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  8. 2.3 15km W of Weaverville, CA
  9. 2.4 32km W of Hayfork, CA
  10. 2.3 8km E of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 1.7 33km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  12. 2.5 19km SE of Bayside, CA
  13. 2.1 24km WNW of Weaverville, CA
  14. 1.8 9km W of Willow Creek, CA
  15. 2.2 20km SE 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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