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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

10km WNW of Montgomery Creek, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 13 kmTehama County 85 kmSiskiyou County 90 kmTrinity County 95 kmLassen County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 13 km S
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 40.8775, -122.0277. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 13 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 90 km (56 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Trinity County, CA 95 km (59 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Lassen County, CA 120 km (74 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Modoc County, CA 135 km (84 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Modoc 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. 2.2 18km NNE of Bella Vista, CA
  2. 1.8 5km NNE of Shasta, CA
  3. 1.7 4km N of Viola, CA
  4. 1.8 18km NW of Viola, CA
  5. 1.6 8km NNW of Bella Vista, CA
  6. 1.9 16km ESE of McCloud, CA
  7. 1.6 21km SE of Burney, CA
  8. 1.6 9km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  9. 2.0 24km SSE of Burney, CA
  10. 1.9 10km NW of Burney, CA
  11. 1.5 10km NW of Burney, CA
  12. 1.7 11km SE of Millville, CA
  13. 1.8 22km N of Big Bend, CA
  14. 1.8 7km NNW of Bella Vista, CA
  15. 1.8 8km NNW of Bella Vista, 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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