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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mw

18 km SE of Redway, CA

· 7.2 km deep · released about 2 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 68 kmHumboldt County 79 kmTrinity County 83 kmGlenn 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 3.4 (mw)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mendocino County, 68 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 255 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.3× more

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 40.0230, -123.6535. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 68 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Humboldt County, CA 79 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humboldt County
Trinity County, CA 83 km (52 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 117 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Lake County, CA 128 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 16 km N of Laytonville, CA
  2. 1.9 10 km SW of Covelo, CA
  3. 1.9 35 km NE of Redway, CA
  4. 2.3 22 km NNE of Redway, CA
  5. 1.6 28 km NW of Covelo, CA
  6. 2.3 3 km NW of Redway, CA
  7. 1.5 3 km NW of Redway, CA
  8. 2.1 8 km E of Covelo, CA
  9. 1.5 18 km SSE of Rio Dell, CA
  10. 2.4 28 km ESE of Rio Dell, CA
  11. 1.7 2 km NNW of Redway, CA
  12. 1.9 3 km NNW of Redway, CA
  13. 2.5 42 km N of Covelo, CA
  14. 1.8 15 km N of Laytonville, CA
  15. 1.6 15 km N 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 4.8 on 2023-10-16 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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