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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

15km NE of Upper Lake, CA

· 4.9 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 17 kmColusa County 48 kmGlenn County 51 kmMendocino County 60 kmSonoma County 82 kmNapa County 92 kmSutter County 96 kmYolo County 99 kmTehama County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
4.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 17 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2222 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 85 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 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 39.2550, -122.7807. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 17 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Glenn County, CA 51 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 60 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 82 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 12km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.7 7km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 1.5 6km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.5 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  7. 1.8 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.6 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.5 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  10. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.7 9km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 1.5 2km W of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.8 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.5 5km S of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.7 8km 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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