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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

14km NNE of Shingletown, CA

· 9.6 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 27 kmTehama County 64 kmLassen County 101 kmButte County 105 kmPlumas County 107 kmTrinity County 110 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 27 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1628 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 40.6007, -121.8075. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 27 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Lassen County, CA 101 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Butte County, CA 105 km (66 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butte County
Plumas County, CA 107 km (67 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Trinity County, CA 110 km (69 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity 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. 2.8 6km SE of Viola, CA
  2. 1.6 1km NNE of Bella Vista, CA
  3. 1.7 2km NW of Bella Vista, CA
  4. 2.1 12km N of Mineral, CA
  5. 1.5 12km ESE of Viola, CA
  6. 2.5 11km N of Mineral, CA
  7. 1.6 14km NNW of Chester, CA
  8. 1.6 11km S of Manton, CA
  9. 1.7 11km WNW of Chester, CA
  10. 1.6 2km N of Bella Vista, CA
  11. 1.9 17km S of Mineral, CA
  12. 1.6 18km NNE of Bella Vista, CA
  13. 2.2 18km NNE of Bella Vista, CA
  14. 2.1 10km WNW of Chester, CA
  15. 1.8 18km NNE of Red Bluff, 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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