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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

12 km W of Lakeport, CA

· 5.5 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 28 kmMendocino County 55 kmSonoma County 58 kmColusa County 72 kmGlenn County 84 kmNapa County 86 kmYolo County 107 kmMarin County 113 kmSutter County 117 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 1.7 (md)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake County, 28 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 397 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 39.0367, -123.0565. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Mendocino County, CA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Sonoma County, CA 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Colusa County, CA 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Glenn County, CA 84 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Napa County, CA 86 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa 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 3 km NW of Redwood Valley, CA
  2. 1.6 3 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 2.2 5 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  4. 1.6 2 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.8 8 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.9 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 1.7 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  8. 1.6 3 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 2.5 7 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.6 19 km NE of Upper Lake, CA
  11. 2.0 4 km W of Cobb, CA
  12. 1.7 3 km E of The Geysers, CA
  13. 2.1 5 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  14. 2.1 10 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  15. 1.5 5 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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