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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

10 km ESE of Black Point-Green Point, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marin County, 30 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 315 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 8.7 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 8.7 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 38.0802, -122.4032. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marin County, CA 30 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Marin County
Contra Costa County, CA 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Solano County, CA 46 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Solano County
Napa County, CA 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Napa County
Alameda County, CA 65 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Sonoma County, CA 67 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 6 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  2. 3.0 3 km SSW of Colma, CA
  3. 1.9 8 km S of Muir Beach, CA
  4. 1.7 5 km WSW of Yountville, CA
  5. 1.7 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  6. 1.6 6 km ENE of Vallejo, CA
  7. 1.7 2 km NNW of Alameda, CA
  8. 1.8 3 km SW of Clayton, CA
  9. 2.3 5 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  10. 1.9 5 km SE of Oakland, CA
  11. 1.7 8 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  12. 1.6 3 km NNW of Crockett, CA
  13. 3.5 4 km SSW of Vallejo, CA
  14. 1.7 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
  15. 1.7 6 km ENE of Vallejo, 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 17,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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