8 km ESE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA

2025-12-11 23:30 UTC · 13 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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: 2025-12-11 23:30 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.8 (md)
Depth: 13 km below the surface
Felt: 1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest: Humboldt County, 36 km SSE
Status: Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS 289 days ago · we first saw it 289 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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

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Epicentre 41.0215, -124.0110. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Humboldt County, CA	36 km (22 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Humboldt County
Del Norte County, CA	81 km (50 mi)	S of here	earthquakes near Del Norte County
Trinity County, CA	86 km (53 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Trinity County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.5 12 km W of Bayview, CA 22:26 UTC
1.9 16 km SSE of Willow Creek, CA 22:10 UTC
1.9 12 km ESE of Willow Creek, CA 19:50 UTC
2.2 10 km NNW of Willow Creek, CA 20:00 UTC
2.2 14 km W of Bayview, CA 05:19 UTC
2.4 20 km SE of Klamath, CA 23:35 UTC
1.6 11 km NE of Blue Lake, CA 19:27 UTC
2.0 13 km E of Willow Creek, CA 14:21 UTC
2.6 3 km ESE of Fortuna, CA 04:02 UTC
2.3 3 km NW of Eureka, CA 16:41 UTC
1.9 20 km SE of Blue Lake, CA 19:51 UTC
2.3 4 km ENE of Trinidad, CA 03:38 UTC
2.5 14 km WSW of McKinleyville, CA 06:54 UTC
2.4 14 km WSW of McKinleyville, CA 06:25 UTC
2.3 13 km E of Weitchpec, CA 23:54 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:51 UTC. 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 2016-07-21 — it released about 35,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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