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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

3km E of Penngrove, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 30 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1237 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 5.7 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 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 38.3002, -122.6280. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 30 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Napa County, CA 35 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 36 km (22 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Solano County, CA 60 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Solano County
Contra Costa County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
San Francisco County, CA 73 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Francisco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 12 km SE of Middletown, CA
  2. 2.3 12 km SE of Middletown, CA
  3. 1.5 12 km SE of Middletown, CA
  4. 1.6 12 km SE of Middletown, CA
  5. 1.8 8 km SW of Calistoga, CA
  6. 1.8 11 km E of Yountville, CA
  7. 2.2 1 km NW of Green Valley, CA
  8. 2.4 4 km W of Glen Ellen, CA
  9. 1.6 7 km WNW of Yountville, CA
  10. 1.8 3 km WNW of Boyes Hot Springs, CA
  11. 1.6 5 km NNE of Windsor, CA
  12. 2.3 8 km ENE of Kenwood, CA
  13. 1.8 6 km NE of Kenwood, CA
  14. 1.8 10 km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  15. 2.1 8 km WSW of Calistoga, 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 4.4 on 2022-09-14 — it released about 20,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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