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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 2.7md

1 km SSW of Alamo, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 350 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 11 kmAlameda County 24 kmSolano County 48 kmSan Mateo County 56 kmMarin County 67 kmSan Joaquin County 68 kmSanta Clara County 75 kmNapa County 78 kmSan Francisco County 89 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 2.7 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
126 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 11 km NE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 449 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 126 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 350 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 43,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 31,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 350 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 37.8427, -122.0337. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 11 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Mateo County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
Marin County, CA 67 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Marin County
San Joaquin County, CA 68 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 2 km E of Hayward, CA
  2. 2.6 2 km E of Hayward, CA
  3. 1.6 2 km NNE of Pacifica, CA
  4. 2.3 2 km E of Hayward, CA
  5. 1.5 5 km E of Vallejo, CA
  6. 1.5 3 km SW of Clayton, CA
  7. 1.5 2 km NE of San Leandro, CA
  8. 1.6 9 km SE of Sunol, CA
  9. 2.2 2 km SW of Walnut Creek, CA
  10. 1.6 3 km W of Blackhawk, CA
  11. 1.6 5 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  12. 1.6 5 km WNW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  13. 1.6 0 km SSE of Danville, CA
  14. 1.6 3 km W of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  15. 1.6 6 km ESE of Santa Venetia, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 420 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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