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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

20 km NE of Upper Lake, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 21 kmGlenn County 45 kmColusa County 47 kmMendocino County 61 kmSonoma County 87 kmSutter County 95 kmNapa County 96 kmYolo County 101 kmTehama County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1124 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.3008, -122.7570. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Mendocino County, CA 61 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Sutter County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sutter County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 11 km NE of Redwood Valley, CA
  2. 1.7 4 km ESE of Lower Lake, CA
  3. 1.5 13 km NE of Redwood Valley, CA
  4. 2.4 6 km ENE of Willits, CA
  5. 1.6 5 km SW of Upper Lake, CA
  6. 2.2 9 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 8 km ESE of Willits, CA
  8. 1.7 8 km ESE of Willits, CA
  9. 1.7 2 km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 1.8 17 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  11. 1.6 12 km N of Cloverdale, CA
  12. 1.6 12 km N of Cloverdale, CA
  13. 1.8 12 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 1.7 9 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.7 14 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 120,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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