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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

20 km NW of Boonville, CA

· 6.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 40 kmLake County 71 kmSonoma County 84 kmColusa County 115 kmGlenn County 116 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 40 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 843 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 39.0873, -123.5687. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 40 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 71 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 84 km (52 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 115 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Glenn County, CA 116 km (72 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 126 km (78 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 7 km ESE of Redwood Valley, CA
  2. 1.7 12 km WSW of Lakeport, CA
  3. 2.0 12 km W of Lakeport, CA
  4. 1.6 7 km E of Willits, CA
  5. 1.6 19 km SE of Navarro Head, CA
  6. 1.5 15 km ESE of Boonville, CA
  7. 1.6 15 km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  8. 2.5 2 km NNE of Point Arena, CA
  9. 1.8 21 km SW of Willits, CA
  10. 1.7 5 km SE of Willits, CA
  11. 1.6 7 km S of Talmage, CA
  12. 2.1 19 km SSE of Boonville, CA
  13. 1.6 5 km WSW of Redwood Valley, CA
  14. 2.1 5 km SW of Boonville, CA
  15. 2.3 12 km ENE of Navarro Head, 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 4.4 on 2020-12-06 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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