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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

8km NNE of Black Point-Green Point, CA

· 7.8 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marin County 28 kmNapa County 39 kmSolano County 48 kmContra Costa County 54 kmSonoma County 55 kmSan Francisco County 70 kmYolo County 75 kmAlameda County 77 kmSan Mateo County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 28 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1846 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 38.1760, -122.4725. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 28 km (17 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Napa County, CA 39 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Solano County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Contra Costa County, CA 54 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Sonoma County, CA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
San Francisco County, CA 70 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Francisco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 10km NE of Napa, CA
  2. 1.7 14km E of Angwin, CA
  3. 1.6 7km E of Penngrove, CA
  4. 2.3 1km W of Kensington, CA
  5. 2.6 1km W of Kensington, CA
  6. 2.0 7km W of Kenwood, CA
  7. 2.3 4km SE of Larkfield-Wikiup, CA
  8. 2.0 4km ENE of El Sobrante, CA
  9. 2.8 4km ENE of El Sobrante, CA
  10. 2.1 4km ENE of El Sobrante, CA
  11. 1.6 6km E of Vallejo, CA
  12. 2.1 3km WNW of Crockett, CA
  13. 2.1 6km SSW of Yountville, CA
  14. 1.9 5km SW of Pacheco, CA
  15. 1.8 2km SE of Pacheco, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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