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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

7 km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA

· 6.6 km deep · released about 18 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 27 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 380 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 38.0882, -122.4435. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 27 km (17 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Contra Costa County, CA 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Napa County, CA 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Solano County, CA 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Sonoma County, CA 64 km (40 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
San Francisco County, CA 65 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Francisco 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. 1.7 6 km ENE of Vallejo, CA
  2. 1.6 10 km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA
  3. 2.1 6 km SW of Kenwood, CA
  4. 1.6 5 km SE of Oakland, CA
  5. 2.4 5 km SE of Oakland, CA
  6. 2.6 2 km WNW of Concord, CA
  7. 1.6 8 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  8. 2.0 8 km E of Suisun City, CA
  9. 1.6 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  10. 1.5 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  11. 2.4 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  12. 2.9 7 km N of Orinda, CA
  13. 2.1 3 km ENE of Stinson Beach, CA
  14. 2.5 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  15. 2.8 8 km NNW of Lafayette, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-15 — it released about 8,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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