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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8md

14km W of Lakeport, CA

· 3.5 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 30 kmMendocino County 55 kmSonoma County 57 kmColusa County 74 kmGlenn County 86 kmNapa County 87 kmYolo County 108 kmMarin County 112 kmSutter 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 2.8 (md)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
33 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lake County, 30 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1446 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 33 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 39.0250, -123.0712. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 30 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 57 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 74 km (46 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Glenn County, CA 86 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 87 km (54 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

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

  1. 1.8 7km W of Cobb, CA
  2. 1.6 4km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.5 4km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.5 8km SW of Kelseyville, CA
  5. 1.6 6km NE of Cloverdale, CA
  6. 1.8 7km W of Cobb, CA
  7. 2.2 13km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.9 6km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.6 3km SE of The Geysers, CA
  10. 2.6 9km WNW of Cobb, CA
  11. 1.9 6km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 1.7 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.6 3km S of Cobb, CA
  14. 1.6 6km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.9 8km NW of The Geysers, 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 2,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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