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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

8 km S of The Geysers, CA

· 5.3 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 24 kmNapa County 43 kmLake County 45 kmColusa County 70 kmMarin County 72 kmYolo County 74 kmSolano County 86 kmSutter County 99 kmMendocino County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sonoma County, 24 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 912 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 38.7020, -122.7592. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 24 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Lake County, CA 45 km (28 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 70 km (43 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Marin County, CA 72 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County
Yolo County, CA 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km NNE of Clearlake Oaks, CA
  2. 1.8 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.5 8 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.6 0 km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.9 8 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  6. 1.6 3 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  7. 3.2 2 km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  8. 2.1 3 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  9. 1.8 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.7 2 km NE of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.8 6 km W of Cobb, CA
  12. 1.7 8 km SW of Calistoga, CA
  13. 2.2 8 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.8 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 2.9 7 km WNW of The Geysers, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 150,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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