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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

4km WSW of Antioch, CA

· 20 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 12 kmSolano County 32 kmAlameda County 39 kmSan Joaquin County 51 kmSacramento County 67 kmNapa County 71 kmYolo County 77 kmSan Mateo County 79 kmMarin County 79 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 12 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1429 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 37.9897, -121.8457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 12 km (8 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Solano County
Alameda County, CA 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alameda County
San Joaquin County, CA 51 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
Sacramento County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sacramento County
Napa County, CA 71 km (44 mi) SE 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. 1.5 2km SE of Pacheco, CA
  2. 1.6 8km SE of Sunol, CA
  3. 1.7 2km N of San Leandro, CA
  4. 1.5 8km SSW of Livermore, CA
  5. 1.5 8km SSW of Brentwood, CA
  6. 2.0 2km NE of Danville, CA
  7. 1.9 2km W of Diablo, CA
  8. 1.9 2km NE of Danville, CA
  9. 1.7 9km NE of Blackhawk, CA
  10. 1.5 3km ESE of San Ramon, CA
  11. 2.7 3km NE of San Leandro, CA
  12. 1.5 3km E of Oakland, CA
  13. 2.0 3km NNE of Fremont, CA
  14. 1.5 2km NNE of Pleasant Hill, CA
  15. 1.7 7km SSW of Antioch, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 26,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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