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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

16 km NNE of Point Arena, CA

· -0.2 km deep · released about 22 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 46 kmLake County 78 kmSonoma County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
-0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 46 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1121 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 22 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 680,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 480,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 43× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 22 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 39.0503, -123.6463. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 46 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 78 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Glenn County, CA 123 km (77 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 129 km (80 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 136 km (84 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Marin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 5 km E of Boonville, CA
  2. 1.9 20 km SSW of Willits, CA
  3. 1.6 9 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  4. 1.8 16 km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  5. 3.1 5 km NNE of Boonville, CA
  6. 2.1 6 km SSE of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.5 23 km SSW of Willits, CA
  8. 1.8 10 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  9. 1.6 15 km WNW of Ukiah, CA
  10. 1.9 5 km E of Boonville, CA
  11. 2.8 5 km E of Boonville, CA
  12. 2.2 9 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  13. 1.7 2 km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  14. 1.6 14 km SE of Boonville, CA
  15. 1.6 5 km ESE of Point Arena, 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 4.3 on 2019-04-29 — it released about 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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