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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

3 km NNE of Pleasant Hill, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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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 2.6 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
37 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 10 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 623 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 37 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 37.9687, -122.0477. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 10 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 35 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Alameda County, CA 38 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Marin County, CA 62 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Napa County, CA 65 km (40 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Napa County
San Mateo County, CA 68 km (42 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 2 km E of Hayward, CA
  2. 1.5 7 km ENE of Vallejo, CA
  3. 2.2 8 km W of Brentwood, CA
  4. 1.6 3 km E of Oakland, CA
  5. 2.2 6 km S of Alameda, CA
  6. 1.6 6 km S of Alameda, CA
  7. 1.5 6 km E of Santa Venetia, CA
  8. 1.6 1 km SSE of Pacheco, CA
  9. 1.5 2 km N of Pleasant Hill, CA
  10. 1.6 2 km ENE of Oakland, CA
  11. 1.8 0 km SW of Crockett, CA
  12. 1.7 8 km NW of Bayview-Montalvin, CA
  13. 2.0 3 km SSE of Vacaville, CA
  14. 1.8 1 km N of Pacheco, CA
  15. 1.6 6 km SSE of Moraga, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 620 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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