Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.5md
8km SSW of Kelseyville, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (md)
- Depth
- 3.8 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Lake County, 25 km NNE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2048 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 5.9 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 38.9127, -122.8813. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake County, CA | 25 km (15 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Lake County |
| Sonoma County, CA | 43 km (27 mi) | N of here | earthquakes near Sonoma County |
| Colusa County, CA | 63 km (39 mi) | WSW of here | earthquakes near Colusa County |
| Napa County, CA | 66 km (41 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Napa County |
| Mendocino County, CA | 75 km (47 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Mendocino County |
| Glenn County, CA | 87 km (54 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
55 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.1 3km W of Cobb, CA
- 1.6 5km WNW of Cobb, CA
- 1.7 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.0 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.5 3km W of Cobb, CA
- 1.6 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.5 2km E of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 5km WNW of Angwin, CA
- 2.3 4km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.7 4km NNW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.6 4km NNW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.8 5km SSW of Redwood Valley, CA
- 1.6 3km SSW of Cobb, 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 220,000 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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