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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

35 km S of Willow Creek, CA

· 23 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Humboldt County, 27 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 969 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.3× more

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 40.6243, -123.6252. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humboldt County, CA 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Tehama County, CA 130 km (81 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Siskiyou County, CA 141 km (88 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Glenn County, CA 154 km (96 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glenn 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. 2.0 12 km SE of Pine Hills, CA
  2. 1.8 2 km SE of Fortuna, CA
  3. 1.9 3 km ESE of Fortuna, CA
  4. 2.0 4 km ENE of Blue Lake, CA
  5. 1.6 26 km ESE of Rio Dell, CA
  6. 1.8 11 km of Hayfork, CA
  7. 2.1 18 km S of Willow Creek, CA
  8. 1.7 18 km ESE of Hydesville, CA
  9. 1.8 24 km NNE of Redway, CA
  10. 2.3 3 km ESE of Willow Creek, CA
  11. 1.6 26 km SE of Rio Dell, CA
  12. 2.4 19 km ENE of Willow Creek, CA
  13. 2.2 21 km W of Hayfork, CA
  14. 2.0 25 km WNW of Hayfork, CA
  15. 2.5 22 km S of Rio Dell, 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 5.3 on 2023-01-01 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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