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M 1.5md
Earthquake near McCloud, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in McCloud in the 24 hours to 5:29 am PST (13:29 UTC). The last one was M 2.1, 13 km (8 mi) N, at 12:35 am PDT on 13 August 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near McCloud
This page: a magnitude 1.5 earthquake was recorded 15 km (9 mi) south-southeast of McCloud, CA, at 5:21 am PDT on 13 May 2024 (12:21 UTC), 8.6 km deep.
USGS: 15 km S of McCloud, CA
- When
- 5:21 am PDT on 13 May 2024 ()
- Where
- 15 km (9 mi) south-southeast of McCloud, CA · earthquakes near McCloud
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (md)
- Depth
- 8.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Shasta County, 41 km S
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 576 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 5 km (3 mi) from the epicentre. In McCloud, 15 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Dunsmuir, Mount Shasta.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.0 on 2023-09-08 — about 170,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 41.1303, -122.0718. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shasta County, CA | 41 km (26 mi) | S | earthquakes near Shasta County |
| Siskiyou County, CA | 64 km (40 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Siskiyou County |
| Trinity County, CA | 103 km (64 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Trinity County |
| Tehama County, CA | 112 km (70 mi) | S | earthquakes near Tehama County |
| Modoc County, CA | 124 km (77 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Modoc County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
51 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 8 km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
- 1.8 9 km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
- 2.1 11 km WSW of Fall River Mills, CA
- 1.8 13 km NNE of McCloud, CA
- 2.0 25 km S of Dunsmuir, CA
- 1.9 12 km NNE of McCloud, CA
- 2.0 13 km NNE of Burney, CA
- 1.7 9 km S of McCloud, CA
- 1.8 34 km SSE of Tennant, CA
- 1.7 9 km NE of Shasta Lake, CA
- 2.0 15 km NNE of Big Bend, CA
- 2.3 10 km S of McCloud, CA
- 2.3 10 km SSW of McCloud, CA
- 1.9 12 km NNE of McCloud, CA
- 1.9 7 km ENE of McCloud, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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