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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

11 km NNE of Bay Point, CA

· 26 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Solano County 16 kmContra Costa County 22 kmAlameda County 53 kmNapa County 55 kmSan Joaquin County 61 kmYolo County 62 kmSacramento County 63 kmMarin County 72 kmSan Mateo County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Solano County, 16 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 493 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 38.1205, -121.9270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Solano County, CA 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
Contra Costa County, CA 22 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Napa County, CA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Napa County
San Joaquin County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
Yolo County, CA 62 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yolo 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. 2.0 2 km ENE of Berkeley, CA
  2. 1.9 7 km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  3. 1.9 3 km SW of Clayton, CA
  4. 2.6 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  5. 1.6 3 km SW of Clayton, CA
  6. 1.7 2 km ENE of Pacheco, CA
  7. 1.6 6 km ENE of Vallejo, CA
  8. 1.6 2 km NW of Concord, CA
  9. 1.9 5 km SSE of Pittsburg, CA
  10. 1.9 13 km NNW of Rio Vista, CA
  11. 2.7 7 km SSW of Yountville, CA
  12. 2.0 2 km SW of Oakland, CA
  13. 1.5 1 km SW of Vallejo, CA
  14. 1.7 5 km WSW of Antioch, CA
  15. 1.6 2 km E of Berkeley, 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 12,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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