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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

14 km NW of Alder Springs, CA

· 4.7 km deep · released about 800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 41 kmMendocino County 62 kmTehama County 67 kmLake County 71 kmColusa County 81 kmTrinity County 103 kmButte County 106 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
4.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 41 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 878 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 800 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 39.7422, -122.8408. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 41 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Mendocino County, CA 62 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Tehama County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Lake County, CA 71 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 81 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Trinity County, CA 103 km (64 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 11 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  2. 1.6 16 km N of Covelo, CA
  3. 3.1 11 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  4. 1.9 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 2.5 11 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  6. 1.8 11 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 1.8 15 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 2.0 10 km of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 1.6 4 km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  10. 2.1 29 km NW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  11. 2.3 10 km W of Alder Springs, CA
  12. 2.0 37 km WNW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  13. 2.0 18 km ENE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 3.0 26 km WSW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
  15. 1.9 13 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 1,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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