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M 2.0md

40 km WSW of Shelter Cove, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 95 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 647 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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 39.8003, -124.4405. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Humboldt County, CA 110 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 147 km (91 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 17 km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  2. 1.7 20 km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  3. 1.9 16 km W of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  4. 1.7 15 km W of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  5. 2.6 34 km W of Shelter Cove, CA
  6. 1.6 16 km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  7. 1.7 9 km W of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  8. 2.3 7 km ENE of Shelter Cove, CA
  9. 2.2 52 km W of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  10. 2.2 62 km W of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  11. 2.1 15 km WSW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  12. 1.8 16 km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  13. 1.7 11 km NNW of Shelter Cove, CA
  14. 2.7 18 km SW of Petrolia, CA
  15. 2.2 26 km WSW of Petrolia, 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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