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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

6km W of Yountville, CA

· 5.5 km deep · released about 44 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 14 kmSonoma County 45 kmSolano County 46 kmMarin County 48 kmYolo County 55 kmContra Costa County 69 kmLake County 82 kmColusa County 87 kmSan Francisco County 92 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 14 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1976 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 44 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 240,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 44 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 38.4090, -122.4337. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 14 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 45 km (28 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Solano County, CA 46 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Marin County, CA 48 km (30 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Yolo County, CA 55 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Contra Costa County, CA 69 km (43 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6km SE of St. Helena, CA
  2. 1.5 13km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  3. 1.8 3km NE of The Geysers, CA
  4. 2.0 6km S of Calistoga, CA
  5. 1.7 14km NNE of Angwin, CA
  6. 1.6 15km NNE of Angwin, CA
  7. 2.0 15km NNE of Angwin, CA
  8. 2.2 15km NNE of Angwin, CA
  9. 2.2 2km ENE of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.8 2km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  11. 3.0 2km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.5 8km SE of Middletown, CA
  13. 1.7 2km NE of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.7 1km E of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.9 5km W of Glen Ellen, 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 4.2 on 2018-01-18 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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