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M 1.6md
Earthquake near Cloverdale, CA
Yes: an earthquake was likely felt in Cloverdale in the last 24 hours. M 1.7, 7 km (4 mi) SE of Cloverdale, at 7:43 pm PST on 11 November 2026 (03:43 UTC); the estimated shaking in Cloverdale was intensity II (weak). Every earthquake near Cloverdale
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 12 km (8 mi) southeast of Cloverdale, CA, at 7:14 pm PDT on 7 July 2023 (02:14 UTC), 7.3 km deep.
USGS: 12km SE of Cloverdale, CA
36 km (23 mi) NNW of Santa Rosa, CA · 114 km (71 mi) NNW of San Francisco, CA
- When
- 7:14 pm PDT on 7 July 2023 ()
- Where
- 12 km (8 mi) southeast of Cloverdale, CA · earthquakes near Cloverdale
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (md)
- Depth
- 7.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Sonoma County, 23 km S
- Nearest mapped fault
- Alexander-Redwood Hill fault, 2 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1223 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 8 km (5 mi) from the epicentre. In Cloverdale, 12 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Healdsburg, Cobb, Windsor, Middletown, Guerneville, Larkfield-Wikiup.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 7.1 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — about 140,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.3 3 km E of Bloomfield, California · 47 km SSE of this epicentre
- 5.3 Northern California · 46 km S of this epicentre
- 5.2 6 km ESE of Talmage, California · 46 km NNW of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 38.7288, -122.9133. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma County, CA | 23 km (14 mi) | S | earthquakes near Sonoma County |
| Lake County, CA | 45 km (28 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Lake County |
| Napa County, CA | 57 km (35 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Napa County |
| Marin County, CA | 77 km (48 mi) | S | earthquakes near Marin County |
| Colusa County, CA | 77 km (48 mi) | NE | earthquakes near Colusa County |
| Yolo County, CA | 88 km (55 mi) | E | earthquakes near Yolo 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.
- 1.7 8 km WNW of Cobb, CA
- 1.5 7 km SSW of Calistoga, CA
- 1.6 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 13 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 3 km SSW of Cobb, CA
- 1.6 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.9 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 9 km WNW of Cobb, CA
- 1.8 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.2 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.1 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.3 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.0 14 km W of Lakeport, CA
- 1.8 2 km WSW of Anderson Springs, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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