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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

7 km WNW of Laytonville, CA

· 3.4 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 31 kmLake County 95 kmGlenn County 100 kmTrinity County 113 kmHumboldt County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 31 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 592 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 39.6918, -123.5597. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 31 km (19 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 100 km (62 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Trinity County, CA 113 km (70 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Humboldt County, CA 117 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Tehama County, CA 123 km (76 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 11 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  2. 1.6 10 km SSE of Redway, CA
  3. 1.5 15 km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 2.5 15 km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 2.8 15 km NW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  6. 1.8 16 km WNW of Cape Vizcaino, CA
  7. 1.6 15 km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  8. 2.0 0 km NNW of Willits, CA
  9. 1.9 1 km NNW of Willits, CA
  10. 2.1 1 km NNW of Willits, CA
  11. 2.7 1 km NNW of Willits, CA
  12. 3.6 1 km NNW of Willits, CA
  13. 1.8 10 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  14. 1.7 6 km N of Laytonville, CA
  15. 1.8 9 km NNW of Redwood Valley, 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 9,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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