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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

21km WNW of Ukiah, CA

· 5.8 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 27 kmLake County 61 kmSonoma County 87 kmGlenn County 101 kmColusa County 104 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
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 27 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1556 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 39.1938, -123.4472. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 27 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 61 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Glenn County, CA 101 km (63 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 104 km (65 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 124 km (77 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 17km NNW of Cloverdale, CA
  2. 1.7 12km W of Lakeport, CA
  3. 2.2 2km E of Willits, CA
  4. 1.8 2km SW of Redwood Valley, CA
  5. 2.3 9km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  6. 2.0 2km SW of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 19km ESE of Boonville, CA
  8. 1.7 5km ENE of Willits, CA
  9. 2.1 9km ESE of Willits, CA
  10. 1.6 14km WSW of Brooktrails, CA
  11. 1.6 12km W of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 1.6 12km NNE of Point Arena, CA
  13. 1.8 12km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 2.4 3km E of Willits, CA
  15. 1.7 5km ENE 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 4.4 on 2020-12-06 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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