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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

17km NNW of Laytonville, CA

· 6.0 km deep · released about 82 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 46 kmTrinity County 98 kmHumboldt County 102 kmGlenn County 102 kmLake County 107 kmTehama County 118 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 46 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2034 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 82 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 82 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 39.8325, -123.5602. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 46 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Trinity County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 102 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Glenn County, CA 102 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 107 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Tehama County, CA 118 km (73 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 10km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.6 12km N of Brooktrails, CA
  3. 1.6 9km SSE of Redway, CA
  4. 1.8 7km W of Laytonville, CA
  5. 2.4 11km W of Laytonville, CA
  6. 1.6 7km ENE of Brooktrails, CA
  7. 1.8 8km ESE of Redway, CA
  8. 1.5 8km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  9. 2.2 7km NE of Shelter Cove, CA
  10. 1.6 11km SE of Laytonville, CA
  11. 1.9 4km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  12. 1.7 19km SW of Laytonville, CA
  13. 1.9 15km N of Brooktrails, CA
  14. 1.5 2km WNW of Laytonville, CA
  15. 1.9 11km N of Covelo, 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 4.3 on 2017-12-14 — it released about 900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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