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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

22 km NNE of Chester, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lassen County 48 kmPlumas County 59 kmShasta County 85 kmButte County 100 kmTehama County 103 kmSierra County 112 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
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lassen County, 48 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1094 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 7.1 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. 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.

Where

Epicentre 40.4793, -121.1038. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lassen County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Plumas County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Shasta County, CA 85 km (53 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Butte County, CA 100 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Tehama County, CA 103 km (64 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Sierra County, CA 112 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sierra County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 26 km SE of Fall River Mills, CA
  2. 2.3 2 km ESE of Canyondam, CA
  3. 3.5 2 km E of Canyondam, CA
  4. 1.9 25 km S of Nubieber, California
  5. 2.2 26 km ESE of Fall River Mills, CA
  6. 2.4 2 km ENE of Canyondam, CA
  7. 2.6 2 km E of Canyondam, CA
  8. 2.5 2 km ENE of Canyondam, CA
  9. 2.2 2 km NE of Almanor, CA
  10. 1.8 2 km N of Almanor, CA
  11. 1.8 14 km NNE of Mineral, CA
  12. 1.8 17 km NNE of Mineral, CA
  13. 1.6 13 km NE of Mineral, CA
  14. 1.7 3 km ENE of Canyondam, California
  15. 1.7 2 km E of Prattville, 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 5.5 on 2023-05-11 — it released about 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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