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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

5km SSE of Oroville East, CA

· 1.5 km deep · released about 35 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yuba County 24 kmButte County 25 kmSutter County 53 kmNevada County 61 kmColusa County 76 kmPlacer County 77 kmPlumas County 78 kmSierra County 80 kmGlenn County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
1.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yuba County, 24 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1462 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 35 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 440,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 28× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 35 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 39.4735, -121.4465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yuba County, CA 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Yuba County
Butte County, CA 25 km (16 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Sutter County, CA 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sutter County
Nevada County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Colusa County, CA 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Placer County, CA 77 km (48 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Placer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 6 km E of Challenge-Brownsville, CA
  2. 2.1 8 km WNW of La Porte, CA
  3. 2.1 7 km ESE of Challenge-Brownsville, CA
  4. 2.0 17 km E of Willows, CA
  5. 1.9 19 km E of Willows, CA
  6. 1.9 5 km WSW of Concow, CA
  7. 3.1 9 km ENE of Colusa, CA
  8. 2.1 11 km WSW of Durham, CA
  9. 1.9 17 km E of Willows, CA
  10. 2.2 5 km WNW of Magalia, CA
  11. 1.8 8 km NNE of Oroville East, CA
  12. 1.7 8 km NNE of Oroville East, CA
  13. 1.8 19 km ESE of Willows, CA
  14. 2.1 17 km ESE of Willows, CA
  15. 2.1 6 km W of Magalia, 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 4.2 on 2022-07-23 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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