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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

5 km SW of Alder Springs, CA

· 8.2 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 31 kmLake County 56 kmMendocino County 62 kmColusa County 66 kmTehama County 73 kmButte County 99 kmSutter County 111 kmTrinity County 119 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 31 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 528 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 39.6148, -122.7600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 31 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 62 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Colusa County, CA 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 73 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Butte County, CA 99 km (62 mi) W of here earthquakes near Butte 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. 1.7 15 km W of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 1.7 18 km NE of Upper Lake, CA
  3. 1.7 17 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 1.6 21 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  5. 1.6 21 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  6. 1.9 20 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  7. 1.9 16 km E of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  8. 1.8 6 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  9. 1.5 9 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  10. 1.7 18 km N of Stony Gorge Reservoir, CA
  11. 1.9 39 km NE of Covelo, CA
  12. 1.7 20 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 13 km of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 2.1 13 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.7 5 km NNW 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 120,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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