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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

5km NNE of Diablo, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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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
16 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 5 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1405 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 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 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 92,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 37.8792, -121.9455. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 5 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 26 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 43 km (27 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Joaquin County, CA 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
San Mateo County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Marin County, CA 73 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Marin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 19km SSE of Livermore, CA
  2. 1.9 3km W of Orinda, CA
  3. 1.6 6km E of Santa Venetia, CA
  4. 1.9 1km S of Crockett, CA
  5. 2.4 12km NNE of Alum Rock, CA
  6. 1.8 3km NNW of Emeryville, CA
  7. 2.1 1km N of El Cerrito, CA
  8. 2.2 13km NE of Milpitas, CA
  9. 1.9 1km SSE of Crockett, CA
  10. 1.5 0km W of Kensington, CA
  11. 2.0 3km SE of American Canyon, CA
  12. 1.6 2km SSE of Pacheco, CA
  13. 1.6 2km S of Oakland, CA
  14. 1.6 2km S of San Ramon, CA
  15. 1.6 12km ENE of Milpitas, 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 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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