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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

12 km SE of Middletown, CA

· 7.3 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Napa County 25 kmSonoma County 41 kmLake County 52 kmYolo County 52 kmColusa County 59 kmSolano County 67 kmMarin County 74 kmSutter County 79 kmContra Costa County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Napa County, 25 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 431 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 38.6860, -122.4988. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Napa County, CA 25 km (15 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Sonoma County, CA 41 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Lake County, CA 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Yolo County, CA 52 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Colusa County, CA 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Solano County, CA 67 km (42 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Solano County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.8 4 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  3. 1.5 7 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  4. 2.0 4 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.6 2 km W of Anderson Springs, CA
  6. 1.5 8 km W of Cotati, CA
  7. 1.6 0 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.7 3 km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  9. 2.0 5 km NE of Windsor, CA
  10. 1.7 7 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.7 4 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA
  12. 1.5 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.8 7 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  14. 1.7 6 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 2.5 8 km NNW 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 140,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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