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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

5 km WSW of Millbrae, CA

· 7.5 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Mateo County 19 kmAlameda County 47 kmSan Francisco County 55 kmContra Costa County 57 kmMarin County 59 kmSanta Cruz County 73 kmSanta Clara County 77 kmSolano County 88 kmNapa County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Mateo County, 19 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 724 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 6.4 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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.

Where

Epicentre 37.5767, -122.4345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Mateo County, CA 19 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Alameda County, CA 47 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Alameda County
San Francisco County, CA 55 km (34 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Francisco County
Contra Costa County, CA 57 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Marin County, CA 59 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Marin County
Santa Cruz County, CA 73 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Santa Cruz County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 3 km W of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  2. 1.6 6 km ESE of Santa Venetia, CA
  3. 1.9 3 km S of Los Altos Hills, CA
  4. 1.5 5 km E of El Granada, CA
  5. 2.2 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  6. 1.5 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  7. 1.6 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  8. 2.2 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  9. 2.4 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  10. 1.9 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  11. 1.5 6 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  12. 1.6 6 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  13. 2.9 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  14. 2.5 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  15. 2.1 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, 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 2018-01-04 — it released about 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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