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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2km E of Redway, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Humboldt County 67 kmMendocino County 82 kmTrinity County 83 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
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humboldt County, 67 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1521 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 40.1162, -123.7943. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 67 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Mendocino County, CA 82 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Trinity County, CA 83 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 132 km (82 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 144 km (89 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7km ESE of Hydesville, CA
  2. 2.2 16km SE of Petrolia, CA
  3. 2.1 36km W of Hayfork, CA
  4. 1.8 11km S of Rio Dell, CA
  5. 2.7 2km NNE of Petrolia, CA
  6. 2.3 4km ENE of Petrolia, CA
  7. 1.5 17km E of Rio Dell, CA
  8. 1.8 8km ESE of Redway, CA
  9. 1.7 20km NNE of Rockport, CA
  10. 1.7 4km NNW of Redway, CA
  11. 1.7 19km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  12. 1.5 16km NNW of Laytonville, CA
  13. 4.3 36km NE of Redway, CA
  14. 2.0 7km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  15. 1.9 27km NE of Redway, 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 5.6 on 2019-06-23 — it released about 870,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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