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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

4 km ESE of Vallejo, CA

· 8.5 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Solano County 29 kmContra Costa County 29 kmNapa County 47 kmMarin County 49 kmAlameda County 56 kmYolo County 69 kmSan Mateo County 78 kmSonoma County 80 kmSan Joaquin County 82 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 1.6 (md)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Solano County, 29 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 371 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 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 38.0985, -122.1883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Solano County, CA 29 km (18 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Contra Costa County, CA 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Napa County, CA 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Napa County
Marin County, CA 49 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Alameda County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Yolo County, CA 69 km (43 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yolo 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. 1.6 5 km SE of Oakland, CA
  2. 1.7 4 km E of Brentwood, CA
  3. 2.4 5 km SE of Oakland, CA
  4. 2.6 2 km WNW of Concord, CA
  5. 1.6 8 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  6. 2.0 8 km E of Suisun City, CA
  7. 2.0 2 km ENE of San Ramon, CA
  8. 1.6 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  9. 1.5 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  10. 2.4 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  11. 2.9 7 km N of Orinda, CA
  12. 2.1 3 km ENE of Stinson Beach, CA
  13. 2.5 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  14. 2.8 8 km NNW of Lafayette, CA
  15. 2.3 7 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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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