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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

4km NNW of The Geysers, CA

· 0.9 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 33 kmSonoma County 34 kmNapa County 52 kmColusa County 62 kmYolo County 78 kmMarin County 84 kmMendocino County 90 kmGlenn County 94 kmSolano County 95 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
0.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 33 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1329 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 38.8097, -122.7815. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 33 km (21 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 34 km (21 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Colusa County, CA 62 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Yolo County, CA 78 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Marin County, CA 84 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2km W of Anderson Springs, CA
  2. 2.4 1km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.8 1km NE of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.7 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.9 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 2.5 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.5 7km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 2.1 10km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.7 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.5 4km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 2.0 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 2.6 8km WNW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.8 2km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 2.5 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.9 7km NW of The Geysers, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 170,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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