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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

9 km SW of Boonville, CA

· 0.1 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 55 kmLake County 61 kmSonoma County 63 kmColusa County 105 kmNapa County 106 kmGlenn County 114 kmMarin County 115 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
0.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 55 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 486 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 6.8 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 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 38.9425, -123.4167. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 55 km (34 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Sonoma County, CA 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 105 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Glenn County, CA 114 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 20 km SSW of Willits, CA
  2. 1.5 12 km ENE of Cloverdale, CA
  3. 1.7 2 km SSE of Navarro Head, CA
  4. 1.6 20 km SSW of Willits, CA
  5. 1.6 11 km N of Cloverdale, CA
  6. 1.5 10 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.6 10 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  8. 2.0 12 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.5 2 km SSW of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 1.5 16 km ESE of Boonville, CA
  11. 1.5 3 km E of Talmage, CA
  12. 1.8 4 km ESE of Talmage, CA
  13. 2.5 13 km ENE of Cloverdale, CA
  14. 1.8 14 km NNE of Point Arena, CA
  15. 1.8 2 km SSE of Navarro Head, 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 4.4 on 2020-12-06 — it released about 17,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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