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M 1.7md

4km SSE of Mineral, CA

· 3.1 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tehama County 62 kmShasta County 65 kmPlumas County 71 kmButte County 73 kmLassen County 90 kmGlenn County 108 kmYuba 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tehama County, 62 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1902 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 40.3170, -121.5505. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tehama County, CA 62 km (38 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Shasta County, CA 65 km (40 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Plumas County, CA 71 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Butte County, CA 73 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butte County
Lassen County, CA 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Glenn County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3km S of Canyondam, CA
  2. 1.7 2 km SW of Canyondam, California
  3. 2.1 4km NNW of Canyondam, CA
  4. 1.8 5km E of Chester, CA
  5. 1.7 4km ESE of Chester, CA
  6. 2.3 24km NNE of Forest Ranch, CA
  7. 1.8 11km ESE of Millville, CA
  8. 2.2 8km W of Chester, CA
  9. 2.9 12km SE of Mineral, CA
  10. 2.5 3km E of Prattville, CA
  11. 2.3 3km ENE of Prattville, CA
  12. 1.6 7km WSW of Shingletown, CA
  13. 2.3 9km WSW of Shingletown, CA
  14. 2.4 21km SSE of Mineral, CA
  15. 1.8 10km ESE of Millville, 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.

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