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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

5km NNE of Clearlake, CA

· 5.3 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 18 kmColusa County 37 kmNapa County 59 kmSonoma County 59 kmGlenn County 70 kmYolo County 70 kmSutter County 78 kmMendocino County 87 kmSolano County 99 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1745 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 38.9943, -122.5997. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 37 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Glenn County, CA 70 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Yolo County, CA 70 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 2.2 6km S of Anderson Springs, CA
  3. 1.6 1km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 2.5 4km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 1.7 8km WNW of Cobb, CA
  6. 1.7 7km WNW of Cobb, CA
  7. 2.6 7km W of Cobb, CA
  8. 2.3 3km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  9. 1.6 5km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.7 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 2.1 4km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 2.3 7km W of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.7 2km WNW of Anderson Springs, CA
  14. 1.7 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 2.1 3km SE of The Geysers, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 220,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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