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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

8 km NW of Bayview-Montalvin, CA

· 3.0 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 30 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 978 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 38.0433, -122.4027. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 30 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Contra Costa County, CA 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Napa County, CA 52 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
Alameda County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
San Francisco County, CA 65 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Francisco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 4 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  2. 2.1 8 km WNW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  3. 1.7 5 km E of Vallejo, CA
  4. 1.6 7 km WSW of Kenwood, CA
  5. 2.4 7 km WSW of Kenwood, CA
  6. 1.7 1 km NNW of Orinda, CA
  7. 1.8 1 km NNW of Orinda, CA
  8. 1.7 7 km SSW of Muir Beach, CA
  9. 1.6 6 km ENE of Vallejo, CA
  10. 2.1 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  11. 2.2 7 km SSW of Muir Beach, CA
  12. 1.9 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  13. 1.5 6 km E of Walnut Creek, CA
  14. 3.2 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  15. 1.6 14 km NNE of Napa, 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 12,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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