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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

9km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 9.0 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 30 kmGlenn County 48 kmMendocino County 50 kmColusa County 58 kmSonoma County 93 kmTehama County 101 kmNapa County 106 kmSutter County 107 kmYolo County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 30 km SSE
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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 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 39.3642, -122.8668. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 30 km (19 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Colusa County, CA 58 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 93 km (58 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Tehama County, CA 101 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

52 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 140,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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