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quarry blast · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA

· -0.6 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 26 kmTrinity County 65 kmTehama County 68 kmSiskiyou County 97 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 26 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2147 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as quarry blast, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 40.7265, -122.3518. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 65 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 97 km (60 mi) S of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Butte County, CA 134 km (83 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 1km NW of Palo Cedro, CA
  2. 1.6 1km SW of Palo Cedro, CA
  3. 1.7 2km WSW of Palo Cedro, CA
  4. 1.6 2km W of Palo Cedro, CA
  5. 1.5 6km ESE of Bella Vista, CA
  6. 1.6 8km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  7. 1.9 16km NW of Big Bend, CA
  8. 2.0 18km ESE of Anderson, CA
  9. 1.6 10km WSW of Round Mountain, CA
  10. 1.5 14km N of Shingletown, CA
  11. 1.6 2km E of Palo Cedro, CA
  12. 1.5 6km NNE of Millville, CA
  13. 2.1 12km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA
  14. 1.8 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  15. 1.6 5km N of Millville, 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.

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