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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

3km W of American Canyon, CA

· 8.9 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Solano County 33 kmNapa County 37 kmContra Costa County 42 kmMarin County 42 kmYolo County 65 kmSonoma County 67 kmAlameda County 68 kmSan Francisco County 82 kmSan Mateo County 85 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
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Solano County, 33 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1657 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 38.1778, -122.2940. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Solano County, CA 33 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Napa County, CA 37 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
Contra Costa County, CA 42 km (26 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Marin County, CA 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Yolo County, CA 65 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Sonoma County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 7km NNE of Penngrove, CA
  2. 1.6 3km E of Oakland, CA
  3. 1.6 5km E of Vallejo, CA
  4. 1.6 6km ESE of Penngrove, CA
  5. 1.5 6km NE of Santa Rosa, CA
  6. 1.5 12km E of Yountville, CA
  7. 2.2 6km ESE of Penngrove, CA
  8. 1.6 9km NNE of Benicia, CA
  9. 1.9 1km W of Martinez, CA
  10. 1.7 5km SSW of Calistoga, CA
  11. 1.6 2km NNE of Pleasant Hill, CA
  12. 1.9 7km NW of Bay Point, CA
  13. 1.8 7km NW of Bay Point, CA
  14. 2.0 6km NW of Bay Point, CA
  15. 2.2 7km NW of Bay Point, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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