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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

2 km E of Danville, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 20 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Contra Costa County 11 kmAlameda County 20 kmSolano County 50 kmSan Mateo County 57 kmSan Joaquin County 64 kmSanta Clara County 71 kmMarin County 72 kmNapa County 82 kmSacramento County 89 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 1.9 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Contra Costa County, 11 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 45 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 20 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 760,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 540,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 48× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 20 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 37.8202, -121.9810. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Contra Costa County, CA 11 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Contra Costa County
Alameda County, CA 20 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Alameda County
Solano County, CA 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Solano County
San Mateo County, CA 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Mateo County
San Joaquin County, CA 64 km (39 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Joaquin County
Santa Clara County, CA 71 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Santa Clara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3 km S of Green Valley, CA
  2. 2.5 1 km ESE of Pinole, CA
  3. 2.3 4 km SW of Green Valley, CA
  4. 2.5 20 km SE of Livermore, CA
  5. 2.0 10 km SSW of Brentwood, CA
  6. 1.9 10 km E of Blackhawk, CA
  7. 2.3 9 km E of Blackhawk, CA
  8. 1.7 4 km NNE of Diablo, CA
  9. 1.5 3 km SSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  10. 2.6 3 km SSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  11. 1.9 3 km SSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  12. 2.9 3 km SSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA
  13. 1.6 1 km WSW of Pleasant Hill, CA
  14. 1.7 5 km E of Vallejo, CA
  15. 1.6 5 km SSW of Clayton, 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 7,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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