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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

3km N of Clearlake, CA

· 2.6 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 17 kmColusa County 40 kmSonoma County 57 kmNapa County 59 kmYolo County 71 kmGlenn County 71 kmSutter County 80 kmMendocino County 86 kmSolano County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 17 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2208 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 38.9837, -122.6267. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 17 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 40 km (25 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 57 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yolo County, CA 71 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Glenn County, CA 71 km (44 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Glenn 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. 1.7 6km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.7 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.7 10km SE of Cloverdale, CA
  4. 1.7 6km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 2.3 3km SSE of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.8 16km NNE of Upper Lake, CA
  7. 1.6 2km SE of Clearlake, CA
  8. 1.6 2km E of Clearlake, CA
  9. 1.6 7km W of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.6 3km NE of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.6 18km SSE of Talmage, CA
  12. 2.0 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.9 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  14. 1.8 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.5 12km S 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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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