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M 1.6md

7km NNW of McCloud, CA

· 0.4 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Siskiyou County 44 kmShasta County 62 kmTrinity County 109 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Siskiyou County, 44 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1189 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 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 41.3132, -122.1577. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Siskiyou County, CA 44 km (27 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Shasta County, CA 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Trinity County, CA 109 km (68 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Josephine County, OR 167 km (104 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Josephine 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. 1.9 13 km SSE of Tennant, CA
  2. 1.6 20 km W of Big Bend, CA
  3. 1.9 16 km SSW of Tennant, CA
  4. 1.8 16 km SSW of Tennant, CA
  5. 1.5 27 km N of Shasta Lake, CA
  6. 2.0 16 km SE of McCloud, CA
  7. 1.6 26 km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA
  8. 2.6 23 km WSW of Mount Hebron, CA
  9. 1.8 12 km SE of Dunsmuir, CA
  10. 2.0 12 km SE of Dunsmuir, CA
  11. 2.1 4 km SW of Tennant, CA
  12. 1.6 4 km SW of Tennant, CA
  13. 1.8 13 km NNE of McCloud, CA
  14. 2.0 25 km S of Dunsmuir, CA
  15. 1.9 12 km NNE of McCloud, 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.

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