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M 2.8md

6 km S of Palo Cedro, CA

· 22 km deep · released about 400 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shasta County 32 kmTehama County 43 kmTrinity County 76 kmGlenn County 102 kmButte County 108 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 2.8 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shasta County, 32 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 192 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 400 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 27,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 400 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 40.5102, -122.2273. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shasta County, CA 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Shasta County
Tehama County, CA 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tehama County
Trinity County, CA 76 km (48 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Trinity County
Glenn County, CA 102 km (63 mi) N of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Butte County, CA 108 km (67 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Butte County
Siskiyou County, CA 123 km (76 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 9 km ENE of Shingletown, CA
  2. 1.9 4 km ESE of Bella Vista, CA
  3. 1.9 16 km NE of Red Bluff, CA
  4. 1.5 29 km N of Shasta Lake, CA
  5. 1.7 20 km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA
  6. 2.7 4 km SSE of Anderson, CA
  7. 2.0 24 km WSW of Big Bend, CA
  8. 1.8 13 km SW of Manton, CA
  9. 1.7 17 km NE of Red Bluff, CA
  10. 2.6 16 km NNE of Red Bluff, CA
  11. 1.8 16 km NNE of Shingletown, CA
  12. 2.0 13 km SW of Manton, CA
  13. 1.8 11 km SW of Manton, CA
  14. 1.8 12 km SW of Manton, CA
  15. 2.7 10 km SW of Manton, 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.

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