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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

5 km E of Santa Rosa, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 47 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sonoma County 26 kmNapa County 29 kmMarin County 45 kmSolano County 65 kmYolo County 69 kmLake County 73 kmContra Costa County 85 kmSan Francisco County 87 kmColusa County 88 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Sonoma County, 26 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 388 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 47 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 20× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 47 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 38.4517, -122.6458. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sonoma County, CA 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 45 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Marin County
Solano County, CA 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Yolo County, CA 69 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Lake County, CA 73 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  2. 1.6 2 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  3. 1.5 2 km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  4. 1.7 10 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  5. 2.4 3 km SSW of Cobb, CA
  6. 1.6 7 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  7. 1.6 5 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  8. 1.8 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 1.6 6 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  10. 1.8 2 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.7 5 km NNW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.9 3 km SSW of Cobb, CA
  13. 1.6 2 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 1.5 4 km S of Anderson Springs, CA
  15. 1.8 10 km NW 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 21,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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