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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

8km SSW of Covelo, CA

· 4.7 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 36 kmGlenn County 77 kmLake County 83 kmTehama County 100 kmTrinity County 103 kmColusa County 109 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
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 36 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1874 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 39.7285, -123.2810. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 36 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Glenn County, CA 77 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 83 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Tehama County, CA 100 km (62 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 103 km (64 mi) S of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Colusa County, CA 109 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa 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. 2.4 22km N of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.8 7km ENE of Brooktrails, CA
  3. 1.9 7km NW of Laytonville, CA
  4. 1.8 0km SW of Laytonville, CA
  5. 1.5 13km N of Brooktrails, CA
  6. 1.8 13km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  7. 2.8 11km NE of Covelo, CA
  8. 1.8 19km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  9. 1.7 14km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  10. 1.6 9km E of Willits, CA
  11. 2.4 40km N of Covelo, CA
  12. 1.6 7km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  13. 1.8 13km W of Alder Springs, CA
  14. 2.1 12km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  15. 1.8 8km NNW 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 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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