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M 2.4md

5 km NE of Dunnigan, CA

· 39 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sutter County 24 kmYolo County 28 kmColusa County 38 kmNapa County 57 kmYuba County 64 kmLake County 72 kmSolano County 73 kmSacramento County 74 kmGlenn County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sutter County, 24 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 403 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 38.9270, -121.9403. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sutter County, CA 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sutter County
Yolo County, CA 28 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Colusa County, CA 38 km (24 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Napa County, CA 57 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yuba County, CA 64 km (40 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yuba County
Lake County, CA 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 5 km E of Williams, CA
  2. 1.5 11 km ENE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  3. 1.6 14 km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  4. 1.9 7 km ESE of Williams, CA
  5. 1.9 14 km NNE of Angwin, CA
  6. 2.0 13 km NNE of Angwin, CA
  7. 1.9 8 km WSW of Arbuckle, CA
  8. 2.0 10 km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  9. 2.2 9 km SSW of South Yuba City, CA
  10. 3.1 9 km ENE of Colusa, CA
  11. 1.7 20 km W of Winters, CA
  12. 1.6 18 km WNW of Winters, CA
  13. 2.9 20 km W of Winters, CA
  14. 1.7 11 km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
  15. 2.0 10 km ENE of Hidden Valley 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.

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