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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

3 km SSE of Redwood Valley, CA

· 6.9 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 30 kmLake County 42 kmGlenn County 79 kmColusa County 83 kmSonoma County 83 kmNapa County 111 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 30 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 204 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 39.2430, -123.1953. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mendocino County, CA 30 km (19 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 79 km (49 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 83 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 83 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 111 km (69 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa 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. 1.5 14 km ESE of Navarro Head, CA
  2. 1.6 15 km WNW of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  3. 1.7 7 km SE of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  4. 2.0 7 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  5. 1.9 17 km NNE of Upper Lake, CA
  6. 1.6 10 km ENE of Talmage, CA
  7. 1.6 5 km NE of Brooktrails, CA
  8. 2.3 2 km W of Redwood Valley, CA
  9. 2.0 2 km SSE of Redwood Valley, CA
  10. 2.1 7 km NNE of Redwood Valley, CA
  11. 1.8 7 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  12. 1.6 7 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA
  13. 1.7 9 km NNE of Brooktrails, CA
  14. 1.9 14 km E of Willits, CA
  15. 2.2 12 km SSE 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 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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