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M 3.5mw

10 km NNE of Susanville, CA

· 5.8 km deep · released about 2.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lassen County 23 kmPlumas County 59 kmWashoe County 86 kmSierra County 104 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 3.5 (mw)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
33 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lassen County, 23 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 631 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 33 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.1× more

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 40.5087, -120.6448. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lassen County, CA 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Plumas County, CA 59 km (37 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Washoe County, NV 86 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Sierra County, CA 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Shasta County, CA 121 km (75 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Butte County, CA 124 km (77 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Butte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 36 km N of Chester, CA
  2. 2.1 27 km of Susanville, CA
  3. 2.0 12 km NE of Johnstonville, CA
  4. 2.6 11 km of Honey Lake, CA
  5. 1.8 4 km N of Canyondam, CA
  6. 2.5 5 km NNW of Hamilton Branch, CA
  7. 2.7 10 km NNE of Susanville, CA
  8. 1.9 10 km NNE of Susanville, CA
  9. 3.0 10 km NNE of Susanville, CA
  10. 2.6 11 km N of Susanville, 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.

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