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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

13km SE of Talmage, CA

· 3.5 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 30 kmMendocino County 54 kmSonoma County 59 kmColusa County 74 kmGlenn County 85 kmNapa County 88 kmYolo County 109 kmMarin County 114 kmSutter 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
8 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lake County, 30 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1671 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 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 39.0405, -123.0787. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 30 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 74 km (46 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Glenn County, CA 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 88 km (55 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.7 4km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.8 6km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.8 3km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.8 1km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.7 2km W of Cobb, CA
  7. 2.6 10km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 2.2 2km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.6 4km S of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 1.8 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.8 8km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  12. 1.8 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.7 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 2.1 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 2.2 6km S of Anderson Springs, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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