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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

7km W of Calistoga, CA

· 7.5 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 24 kmNapa County 30 kmMarin County 58 kmLake County 60 kmYolo County 67 kmSolano County 71 kmColusa County 77 kmContra Costa County 95 kmSutter County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
8 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Sonoma County, 24 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1856 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 8 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 38.5685, -122.6575. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 30 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County
Lake County, CA 60 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Yolo County, CA 67 km (41 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Solano County, CA 71 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Solano 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. 1.7 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.7 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.7 3km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  4. 2.6 3km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.6 10km NE of Healdsburg, CA
  6. 1.8 3km SE of Larkfield-Wikiup, CA
  7. 1.5 0km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 2.0 9km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.5 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.6 2km NW of Anderson Springs, CA
  11. 2.4 5km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.8 3km ENE of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.6 10km WNW of Calistoga, CA
  14. 2.5 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.7 6km WNW of Cobb, 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 34,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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