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M 1.8md

3km N of McCloud, CA

· 9.7 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Siskiyou County 47 kmShasta County 59 kmTrinity County 109 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Siskiyou County, 47 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1689 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 41.2858, -122.1317. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Siskiyou County, CA 47 km (29 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Shasta County, CA 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 109 km (68 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Modoc County, CA 123 km (76 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Modoc County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 8 km ESE of McCloud, CA
  2. 1.8 8 km SSW of McCloud, CA
  3. 1.5 15 km S of McCloud, CA
  4. 1.8 17 km E of Carrick, CA
  5. 2.0 8 km NE of Big Bend, CA
  6. 1.8 8 km NW of McCloud, CA
  7. 2.2 6 km SSE of McCloud, CA
  8. 1.9 8 km SE of Dunsmuir, CA
  9. 1.8 26 km N of Shasta Lake, CA
  10. 1.8 26 km N of Shasta Lake, CA
  11. 1.6 8 km NW of McCloud, CA
  12. 1.6 9 km NNW of Montgomery Creek, CA
  13. 1.6 8 km N of Montgomery Creek, CA
  14. 2.3 17 km NW of Fall River Mills, CA
  15. 1.7 11 km WNW of Big Bend, 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.

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