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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

7km S of Muir Beach, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marin County 31 kmSan Francisco County 39 kmSan Mateo County 47 kmContra Costa County 58 kmAlameda County 63 kmSolano County 77 kmNapa County 82 kmSonoma County 86 kmSanta Cruz County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 31 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1641 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 37.8007, -122.5963. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 31 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Francisco County, CA 39 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Francisco County
San Mateo County, CA 47 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Contra Costa County, CA 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 63 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 77 km (48 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Solano County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 3km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  2. 1.5 3km N of Piedmont, CA
  3. 1.5 5km SSE of Rodeo, CA
  4. 2.1 1km WNW of Kensington, CA
  5. 2.3 1km WNW of Kensington, CA
  6. 2.2 1km W of Kensington, CA
  7. 1.7 6km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  8. 2.6 7km SSW of Muir Beach, CA
  9. 1.6 7km ESE of Santa Venetia, CA
  10. 1.8 2km NNW of Oakland, CA
  11. 2.1 2km NNE of San Leandro, CA
  12. 2.6 4km WSW of Colma, CA
  13. 1.5 7km E of Santa Venetia, CA
  14. 2.2 4km W of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  15. 1.9 2km ENE of Berkeley, 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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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