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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.6md

14 km SSE of Covelo, CA

· 4.1 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 39 kmGlenn County 64 kmLake County 74 kmTehama County 91 kmColusa County 97 kmTrinity County 105 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
4.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 39 km SW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 657 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 39.7012, -123.1420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 39 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Glenn County, CA 64 km (40 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Tehama County, CA 91 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Colusa County, CA 97 km (60 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Trinity County, CA 105 km (65 mi) S of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 19 km ENE of Rockport, CA
  2. 1.9 13 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 2.1 14 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 2.9 13 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.9 21 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  6. 1.7 21 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  7. 2.4 20 km NW of Alder Springs, CA
  8. 1.5 18 km SW of Laytonville, CA
  9. 1.6 7 km ESE of Willits, CA
  10. 1.6 15 km SSE of Covelo, CA
  11. 1.7 7 km WNW of Laytonville, CA
  12. 2.0 6 km WNW of Laytonville, CA
  13. 1.8 4 km NNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 2.1 7 km WNW of Laytonville, CA
  15. 1.7 20 km ENE of Rockport, 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 4.3 on 2024-06-22 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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