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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

34 km NE of Covelo, CA

· 9.8 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tehama County 62 kmGlenn County 63 kmTrinity County 75 kmMendocino County 75 kmLake County 99 kmColusa County 108 kmShasta County 114 kmHumboldt County 116 kmButte County 119 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 1.5 (md)
Depth
9.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tehama County, 62 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1110 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 5.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 39.9878, -122.9355. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tehama County, CA 62 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Glenn County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Trinity County, CA 75 km (47 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Mendocino County, CA 75 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 99 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 7 km WNW of Covelo, CA
  2. 2.0 33 km of Alder Springs, CA
  3. 1.8 10 km NNE of Covelo, CA
  4. 2.5 41 km NNE of Covelo, CA
  5. 2.6 42 km NNE of Covelo, CA
  6. 1.7 11 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  7. 1.6 24 km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  8. 2.1 40 km NW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  9. 2.0 9 km SW of Alder Springs, CA
  10. 2.0 21 km NNE of Alder Springs, CA
  11. 2.1 32 km of Alder Springs, CA
  12. 1.6 12 km NE of Covelo, CA
  13. 1.8 31 km of Alder Springs, CA
  14. 1.8 12 km SSE of Covelo, CA
  15. 2.0 39 km NW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, 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 4.1 on 2021-11-04 — it released about 7,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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