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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

8km SSE of Laytonville, CA

· 7.8 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 21 kmLake County 83 kmGlenn County 89 kmColusa County 115 kmTehama County 118 kmTrinity 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1917 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. 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 39.6197, -123.4412. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 83 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 89 km (55 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 115 km (71 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 118 km (73 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 118 km (73 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6km NE of Willits, CA
  2. 2.0 10km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 1.9 12km SE of Covelo, CA
  4. 2.3 14km SE of Rockport, CA
  5. 1.7 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  6. 2.3 22km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 2.1 6km SW of Laytonville, CA
  8. 1.6 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  9. 1.5 10km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 1.7 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  11. 1.5 8km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  12. 1.7 14km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  13. 2.3 8km NW of Laytonville, CA
  14. 2.4 22km N of Laytonville, CA
  15. 1.6 3km SSE of Redwood Valley, 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 2019-04-29 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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