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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

7 km SSE of Mineral, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tehama County 64 kmShasta County 67 kmPlumas County 69 kmButte County 72 kmLassen County 89 kmGlenn County 109 kmYuba County 116 kmSierra County 118 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
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tehama County, 64 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 797 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 12 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 40.3083, -121.5213. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tehama County, CA 64 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Shasta County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Plumas County, CA 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Butte County, CA 72 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Butte County
Lassen County, CA 89 km (55 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Glenn County, CA 109 km (67 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1 km NE of Almanor, CA
  2. 2.4 2 km N of Almanor, CA
  3. 1.7 1 km NNE of Almanor, CA
  4. 2.3 2 km of Almanor, CA
  5. 1.9 3 km NE of Almanor, CA
  6. 2.2 9 km NNW of Shingletown, CA
  7. 2.4 10 km WSW of Almanor, CA
  8. 1.9 10 km WSW of Almanor, CA
  9. 2.0 11 km WSW of Almanor, CA
  10. 1.9 2 km of Almanor, CA
  11. 2.2 2 km NNE of Almanor, CA
  12. 2.4 2 km NE of Prattville, CA
  13. 2.6 1 km NNW of Canyondam, CA
  14. 2.8 2 km NNW of Canyondam, CA
  15. 1.6 8 km NNE of Viola, 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 5.5 on 2023-05-11 — it released about 420,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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