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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

11 km N of Lake Davis, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Plumas County 29 kmSierra County 44 kmNevada County 79 kmLassen County 84 kmButte County 101 kmStorey County 101 kmPlacer County 103 kmYuba County 107 kmWashoe County 110 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Plumas County, 29 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 271 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 15 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 39.9692, -120.4883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Plumas County, CA 29 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 44 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Nevada County, CA 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Lassen County, CA 84 km (52 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Butte County, CA 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Storey County, NV 101 km (63 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Storey County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 23 km NNW of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
  2. 2.3 2 km ENE of Keddie, CA
  3. 2.2 9 km S of Johnsville, CA
  4. 2.1 7 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  5. 2.4 8 km NW of Honey Lake, CA
  6. 2.6 8 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  7. 2.2 15 km SE of Honey Lake, CA
  8. 2.3 8 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  9. 2.2 8 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  10. 2.0 5 km SSW of Cromberg, CA
  11. 3.0 4 km WSW of Johnsville, CA
  12. 2.4 5 km NW of Johnsville, CA
  13. 2.1 8 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  14. 2.2 8 km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  15. 2.1 19 km N of Chilcoot-Vinton, 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 2016-08-04 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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