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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

14km E of Willow Creek, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Trinity County 43 kmHumboldt County 46 kmDel Norte County 101 kmSiskiyou County 107 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
22 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Trinity County, 43 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1473 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 130 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 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 40.9297, -123.4678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trinity County, CA 43 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 46 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA 101 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Siskiyou County, CA 107 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Shasta County, CA 121 km (75 mi) W of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 137 km (85 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 24km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  2. 2.5 8km W of Willow Creek, CA
  3. 2.9 3km SSE of Somes Bar, CA
  4. 2.0 16km SE of Blue Lake, CA
  5. 2.4 17km E of Willow Creek, CA
  6. 2.6 22km ENE of Hydesville, CA
  7. 2.9 5km N of Willow Creek, CA
  8. 2.1 29km E of Willow Creek, CA
  9. 4.3 16km WSW of Weitchpec, CA
  10. 3.7 16km WSW of Weitchpec, CA
  11. 2.7 21km ESE of Weitchpec, CA
  12. 2.1 19km NE of Hydesville, CA
  13. 2.1 23km E of Hydesville, CA
  14. 2.1 22km ESE of Pine Hills, CA
  15. 2.2 21km NE of Hydesville, 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 4.8 on 2016-07-21 — it released about 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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