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M 1.6md
Earthquake near Hidden Valley Lake, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Hidden Valley Lake in the 24 hours to 10:19 pm PST (06:19 UTC). The last one was M 2.6, 18 km (11 mi) W, at 4:44 pm PST on 8 November 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Hidden Valley Lake
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 14 km (9 mi) east-southeast of Hidden Valley Lake, CA, at 9:44 am PDT on 28 August 2026 (16:44 UTC), 6.7 km deep.
USGS: 14 km ESE of Hidden Valley Lake, CA
43 km (26 mi) NE of Santa Rosa, CA · 108 km (67 mi) N of San Francisco, CA
- When
- 9:44 am PDT on 28 August 2026 ()
- Where
- 14 km (9 mi) east-southeast of Hidden Valley Lake, CA · earthquakes near Hidden Valley Lake
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (md)
- Depth
- 6.7 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Napa County, 29 km SSE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Hunting Creek-Berryessa fault system, 3 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 66 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 10 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Hidden Valley Lake, 14 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Middletown, Angwin, Calistoga, Lower Lake, Deer Park, Cobb.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.0 on 2016-12-14 — about 110,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 38.7540, -122.4155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napa County, CA | 29 km (18 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Napa County |
| Yolo County, CA | 45 km (28 mi) | E | earthquakes near Yolo County |
| Lake County, CA | 49 km (30 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Lake County |
| Colusa County, CA | 50 km (31 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Colusa County |
| Sonoma County, CA | 51 km (32 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Sonoma County |
| Solano County, CA | 68 km (42 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Solano County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
59 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 8 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.6 3 km W of Anderson Springs, CA
- 1.6 4 km ESE of Santa Rosa, CA
- 2.7 3 km ESE of Santa Rosa, CA
- 1.7 8 km ESE of Cloverdale, CA
- 1.7 7 km W of Cobb, CA
- 1.6 1 km ESE of The Geysers, CA
- 1.6 5 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.8 7 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.8 6 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
- 2.8 4 km W of Cobb, CA
- 1.7 11 km NW of The Geysers, CA
- 1.7 12 km WNW of Cobb, CA
- 2.3 3 km ESE of The Geysers, 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.
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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