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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

19km SE of Willow Creek, CA

· 26 km deep · released about 1,000 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 35 kmHumboldt County 40 kmDel Norte County 112 kmSiskiyou County 116 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Trinity County, 35 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1513 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,000 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,000 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 40.8165, -123.4697. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 35 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 112 km (70 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 116 km (72 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Tehama County, CA 130 km (81 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 14km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  2. 2.2 21km NE of Hydesville, CA
  3. 2.9 13km NE of Hydesville, CA
  4. 2.6 14 km ESE of Pine Hills, California
  5. 2.2 13km NE of Hydesville, CA
  6. 2.7 21km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  7. 2.8 20km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  8. 1.7 18km E of Hydesville, CA
  9. 2.3 14 km NE of Hydesville, CA
  10. 2.2 17km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  11. 2.6 17km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  12. 2.1 36km W of Hayfork, CA
  13. 2.5 24km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  14. 2.1 28km WNW of Hayfork, CA
  15. 2.3 15km E of Willow Creek, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 480 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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