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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

6km ESE of Santa Rosa, CA

· 8.5 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 28 kmNapa County 29 kmMarin County 42 kmSolano County 63 kmYolo County 70 kmLake County 77 kmContra Costa County 82 kmSan Francisco County 84 kmColusa County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Sonoma County, 28 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1258 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 38.4182, -122.6410. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 28 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 42 km (26 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Solano County, CA 63 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Yolo County, CA 70 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Lake County, CA 77 km (48 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake 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. 1.7 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 3.0 4km W of Cobb, CA
  3. 1.9 6km WNW of Cobb, CA
  4. 1.6 1km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  5. 2.4 0km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.9 6km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 2.2 4km SSE of Calistoga, CA
  8. 1.9 6km W of Cobb, CA
  9. 1.8 6km W of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.5 3km E of Penngrove, CA
  11. 1.7 2km SW of Anderson Springs, CA
  12. 2.2 7km SSW of Calistoga, CA
  13. 1.7 8km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.5 2km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.5 6km W of Cobb, 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 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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