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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

6 km NNW of Shingletown, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 24 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 26 kmTehama County 54 kmButte County 101 kmTrinity County 102 kmLassen County 111 kmPlumas County 111 kmGlenn County 113 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 26 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 894 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 24 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 640,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 450,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 40× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 24 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 40.5457, -121.9140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 26 km (16 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 54 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Butte County, CA 101 km (63 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte County
Trinity County, CA 102 km (63 mi) E of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Lassen County, CA 111 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Plumas County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Plumas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 23 km ENE of Viola, CA
  2. 1.9 23 km ENE of Viola, CA
  3. 1.6 25 km ENE of Viola, CA
  4. 2.2 16 km NE of Red Bluff, CA
  5. 1.9 9 km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  6. 1.9 6 km SE of Burney, CA
  7. 1.7 7 km WSW of Round Mountain, CA
  8. 1.6 8 km NNW of Bella Vista, CA
  9. 1.9 18 km ENE of Red Bluff, CA
  10. 2.0 18 km NE of Red Bluff, CA
  11. 1.9 1 km ENE of Palo Cedro, CA
  12. 1.8 1 km E of Palo Cedro, CA
  13. 1.7 7 km SSE of Mineral, CA
  14. 1.8 9 km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
  15. 2.4 4 km WNW of Shasta Lake, 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.

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