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M 1.6md

9km SSE of Redway, CA

· 19 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 74 kmHumboldt County 75 kmTrinity County 88 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 74 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1887 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 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 40.0447, -123.7808. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Humboldt County, CA 75 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 88 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 128 km (79 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 137 km (85 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 13km SE of Petrolia, CA
  2. 2.6 15km SE of Petrolia, CA
  3. 2.3 13km SE of Petrolia, CA
  4. 1.7 2km N of Redway, CA
  5. 1.9 17km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  6. 2.4 8km SSE of Petrolia, CA
  7. 4.1 19km NW of Covelo, CA
  8. 2.0 28km NE of Redway, CA
  9. 2.0 13km WSW of Laytonville, CA
  10. 2.1 14km WSW of Laytonville, CA
  11. 1.6 5km NW of Redway, CA
  12. 1.9 8km SSE of Redway, CA
  13. 2.0 8km SSE of Redway, CA
  14. 1.6 12km SE of Petrolia, CA
  15. 1.8 18km E of Rio Dell, 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 8,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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