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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5mw

10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 2.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 19 kmLake County 51 kmGlenn County 77 kmColusa County 89 kmSonoma County 96 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 3.5 (mw)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
81 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mendocino County, 19 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2121 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 81 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 59,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6× more

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 39.3533, -123.2433. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 19 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 77 km (48 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 89 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 96 km (60 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Tehama County, CA 122 km (76 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama 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. 1.9 8km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 2.9 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  3. 2.2 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  4. 1.9 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  5. 1.9 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  6. 1.8 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  7. 2.7 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  8. 1.6 10km ESE of Willits, CA
  9. 1.7 11km ESE of Willits, CA
  10. 1.6 2km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  11. 1.9 10km SE of Willits, CA
  12. 1.6 11km ESE of Willits, CA
  13. 1.7 10km SE of Willits, CA
  14. 1.6 11km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  15. 2.0 10km ESE of Willits, 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 230 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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