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Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change

M 1.6md

8 km NNW of The Geysers, CA

· 1.7 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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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
1.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 32 km NNE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 540 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 38.8293, -122.8177. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Colusa County, CA 63 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Yolo County, CA 81 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Mendocino County, CA 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino 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. 2.3 4 km W of Cobb, CA
  2. 1.5 8 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 2.8 3 km ESE of Santa Rosa, CA
  4. 1.6 4 km W of Cobb, CA
  5. 1.5 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.7 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.9 7 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.6 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.6 2 km NNE of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.7 7 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  11. 1.6 0 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.7 3 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  13. 1.6 2 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 2.4 5 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.5 2 km NW of The Geysers, 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 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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