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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5km ENE of Upper Lake, CA

· 6.0 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 13 kmColusa County 54 kmMendocino County 58 kmGlenn County 61 kmSonoma County 73 kmNapa County 88 kmYolo County 100 kmSutter County 101 kmTehama County 118 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1593 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 39.1780, -122.8603. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 54 km (33 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Mendocino County, CA 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Glenn County, CA 61 km (38 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Sonoma County, CA 73 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 88 km (55 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Napa 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. 1.6 15km NNW of Cloverdale, CA
  2. 2.3 2km SW of Cobb, CA
  3. 1.6 16km NNW of Cloverdale, CA
  4. 2.6 4km SSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  5. 1.5 7km W of Cobb, CA
  6. 2.7 3km NNW of Middletown, CA
  7. 1.6 7km W of Cobb, CA
  8. 1.5 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 2.0 2km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.9 1km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 2.2 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.8 14km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 2.5 15km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 1.6 7km WNW of Cobb, CA
  15. 1.7 9km SSE of Willits, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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