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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

9km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marin County 33 kmSan Francisco County 40 kmSan Mateo County 45 kmContra Costa County 57 kmAlameda County 60 kmSolano County 78 kmNapa County 83 kmSonoma County 88 kmSanta Cruz County 99 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 33 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2067 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.7838, -122.5775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 33 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Francisco County, CA 40 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near San Francisco County
San Mateo County, CA 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Contra Costa County, CA 57 km (35 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 60 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 78 km (48 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Solano County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 1km N of Bolinas, CA
  2. 1.8 8km NNE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  3. 1.8 3km SW of Alamo, CA
  4. 1.8 2km NW of Pacifica, CA
  5. 1.6 4km SW of Colma, CA
  6. 1.6 1km NE of Berkeley, CA
  7. 2.0 1km NNW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  8. 1.5 2km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  9. 1.5 4km E of Moraga, CA
  10. 1.8 7km S of Muir Beach, CA
  11. 1.9 4km SSW of Colma, CA
  12. 1.7 2km E of Berkeley, CA
  13. 2.1 8km S of Muir Beach, CA
  14. 1.6 8km S of Muir Beach, CA
  15. 1.6 3km NNW of Piedmont, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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