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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

16 km E of Lake Pillsbury, CA

· 6.7 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 35 kmGlenn County 38 kmColusa County 54 kmMendocino County 57 kmTehama County 91 kmSonoma County 101 kmSutter County 102 kmButte County 104 kmNapa County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 35 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 404 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 18 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 840,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 53× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 18 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 39.4217, -122.7760. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 35 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 38 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 54 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Mendocino County, CA 57 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Tehama County, CA 91 km (57 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Sonoma County, CA 101 km (62 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 21 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  2. 1.6 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 2.5 20 km WNW of Alder Springs, CA
  4. 2.0 6 km NE of Willits, CA
  5. 1.5 4 km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  6. 1.7 4 km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  7. 1.7 5 km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  8. 2.3 7 km WNW of Redwood Valley, CA
  9. 1.5 14 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  10. 2.1 25 km NNW of Alder Springs, CA
  11. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, CA
  12. 1.9 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 2.0 9 km SSE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  14. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, CA
  15. 1.6 12 km N of Upper Lake, 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 72,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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