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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

2km NNE of Almanor, CA

· 5.9 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Plumas County 40 kmLassen County 71 kmButte County 74 kmTehama County 91 kmSierra County 92 kmShasta County 94 kmYuba County 109 kmNevada County 110 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Plumas County, 40 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1234 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 40.2367, -121.1688. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Plumas County, CA 40 km (25 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Lassen County, CA 71 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Butte County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Tehama County, CA 91 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Sierra County, CA 92 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Shasta County, CA 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta 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. 2.2 1km NE of Prattville, CA
  2. 1.9 3km NE of Almanor, CA
  3. 1.9 4km ENE of Prattville, CA
  4. 2.3 3km ENE of Prattville, CA
  5. 2.3 2km NE of Almanor, CA
  6. 2.4 0km NW of Prattville, CA
  7. 3.2 2km NNE of Almanor, CA
  8. 1.9 1km NNE of Prattville, CA
  9. 2.6 3km NNE of Prattville, CA
  10. 1.8 2km NNE of Almanor, CA
  11. 2.5 3km NNE of Almanor, CA
  12. 2.0 4km NNW of Almanor, CA
  13. 1.8 4km ESE of Prattville, CA
  14. 2.6 2km NE of Almanor, CA
  15. 2.1 1km ENE of Prattville, 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 5.5 on 2023-05-11 — it released about 48,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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