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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

6km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 6.9 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 34 kmMendocino County 48 kmGlenn County 48 kmColusa County 61 kmSonoma County 96 kmTehama County 99 kmSutter County 109 kmNapa County 109 kmButte County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 34 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1336 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 12 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 39.3887, -122.8892. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 34 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Glenn County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 96 km (60 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Tehama County, CA 99 km (62 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 13km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 1.5 15km NW of Upper Lake, CA
  3. 2.0 4km NE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 1.7 15km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 2.5 15km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 2.2 15km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.7 8km NE of Upper Lake, CA
  8. 1.7 19km NE of Upper Lake, CA
  9. 2.0 20km NE of Upper Lake, CA
  10. 2.4 11km W of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  11. 1.7 2km E of Willits, CA
  12. 1.7 7km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 1.8 21km NNE of Nice, CA
  14. 1.7 11km N of Brooktrails, CA
  15. 1.8 14km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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