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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

23 km N of Covelo, CA

· 7.6 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 64 kmTrinity County 74 kmGlenn County 88 kmTehama County 92 kmHumboldt County 95 kmLake County 110 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
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 64 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 384 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 39.9967, -123.2992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Trinity County, CA 74 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 88 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Tehama County, CA 92 km (57 mi) W of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Humboldt County, CA 95 km (59 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Lake County, CA 110 km (68 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 15 km N of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.6 15 km N of Laytonville, CA
  3. 2.2 21 km SSE of Redway, CA
  4. 2.0 22 km SSE of Redway, CA
  5. 2.0 22 km SSE of Redway, CA
  6. 1.7 22 km SSE of Redway, CA
  7. 2.9 5 km SW of Covelo, CA
  8. 1.9 15 km N of Laytonville, CA
  9. 1.7 6 km SE of Redway, CA
  10. 2.1 9 km SSE of Laytonville, CA
  11. 1.7 16 km NW of Laytonville, CA
  12. 1.9 26 km NE of Redway, CA
  13. 1.6 22 km SSE of Redway, CA
  14. 2.0 17 km NE of Redway, CA
  15. 1.6 19 km NW of Laytonville, 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 2016-08-28 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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