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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

15km N of Brooktrails, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 9.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 17 kmLake County 74 kmGlenn County 82 kmColusa County 106 kmTehama County 114 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 17 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1366 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 9.3 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 9.3 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 39.5737, -123.3585. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 17 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 114 km (71 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 121 km (75 mi) S of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 2km ENE of Willits, CA
  2. 2.5 15km W of Brooktrails, CA
  3. 2.4 2km ENE of Willits, CA
  4. 1.7 6km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.7 6km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 2.3 6km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.8 13km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 1.6 11km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 2.0 13km NNE of Fort Bragg, CA
  10. 1.7 6km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  11. 1.6 7km ENE of Willits, CA
  12. 2.1 8km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  13. 1.9 13km N of Brooktrails, CA
  14. 1.8 6km NNE of Ukiah, CA
  15. 2.2 8km NNW of Mendocino, 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 4.3 on 2019-04-29 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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