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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

20km ENE of Willow Creek, CA

· 36 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 49 kmHumboldt County 55 kmDel Norte County 94 kmSiskiyou County 98 kmShasta County 119 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 2.3 (md)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Trinity County, 49 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1818 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 94 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 94 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 41.0192, -123.4228. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 55 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 98 km (61 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Shasta County, CA 119 km (74 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 141 km (88 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 21km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  2. 2.8 20km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  3. 2.5 24km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  4. 2.1 28km WNW of Hayfork, CA
  5. 2.3 15km E of Willow Creek, CA
  6. 2.4 17km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  7. 1.8 20km SSE of Willow Creek, CA
  8. 2.1 25km WNW of Weaverville, CA
  9. 2.0 7km W of Willow Creek, CA
  10. 2.4 14km E of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 2.3 28km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  12. 2.1 26km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  13. 2.4 7km S of Somes Bar, CA
  14. 3.2 16km WSW of Weitchpec, CA
  15. 3.0 12km SSW of Somes Bar, 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 4.4 on 2019-02-06 — it released about 1,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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