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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

10 km ESE of Alder Springs, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glenn County 19 kmLake County 61 kmColusa County 62 kmTehama County 62 kmMendocino County 75 kmButte County 86 kmSutter County 104 kmYuba County 117 kmTrinity County 119 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glenn County, 19 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 467 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 39.6500, -122.6113. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glenn County, CA 19 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 61 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 62 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Tehama County, CA 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Mendocino County, CA 75 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Butte County, CA 86 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Butte 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. 1.5 8 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  2. 1.5 10 km ESE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 2.0 21 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  4. 1.6 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 2.5 20 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 14 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  7. 2.1 25 km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  8. 2.8 12 km SSE of Willows, CA
  9. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, CA
  10. 1.9 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  11. 2.0 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, CA
  13. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, CA
  14. 2.5 14 km NNE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  15. 1.6 14 km N of Lake Pillsbury, 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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