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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

5km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 5.9 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 41 kmLake County 43 kmGlenn County 52 kmColusa County 70 kmTehama County 98 kmSonoma County 103 kmSutter County 118 kmNapa County 119 kmButte County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 41 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1980 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 39.4493, -122.9692. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 41 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 43 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 52 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 70 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Sonoma County, CA 103 km (64 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma 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.

  1. 1.5 8km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.8 5km ENE of Talmage, CA
  3. 1.6 11km SE of Laytonville, CA
  4. 1.9 2km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.8 2km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 2.0 1km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.6 9km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  8. 1.7 11km ESE of Redwood Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 7km ESE of Willits, CA
  10. 2.8 7km ESE of Willits, CA
  11. 2.5 7km ESE of Willits, CA
  12. 1.8 4km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 2.7 15km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 1.8 10km SE of Willits, CA
  15. 1.6 8km ENE of Willits, 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 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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