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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

8km NW of The Geysers, CA

· 1.8 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 31 kmSonoma County 35 kmNapa County 56 kmColusa County 63 kmYolo County 81 kmMendocino County 86 kmMarin County 87 kmGlenn County 93 kmSolano County 99 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 31 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1868 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 6.4 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 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 38.8320, -122.8175. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 31 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Colusa County, CA 63 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Yolo County, CA 81 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Mendocino County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.5 7km S of Calistoga, CA
  3. 1.6 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 2.2 1km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 3.7 4km ENE of Talmage, CA
  6. 1.7 4km ENE of Talmage, CA
  7. 1.7 2km SW of Cobb, CA
  8. 1.9 2km WNW of Cobb, CA
  9. 3.8 4km ENE of Talmage, CA
  10. 1.7 7km W of Cobb, CA
  11. 1.7 3km SW of Angwin, CA
  12. 1.6 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.6 10km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.5 12km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 3.0 4km ENE of Talmage, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 150,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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