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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

8 km SE of Soda Bay, CA

· 2.4 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake County 18 kmColusa County 49 kmSonoma County 50 kmNapa County 60 kmYolo County 78 kmGlenn County 78 kmMendocino County 82 kmSutter County 89 kmMarin County 100 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
2.4 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Lake County, 18 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 18 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 25 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 5.8 620,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 440,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 39× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 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 38.9492, -122.7280. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake County, CA 18 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lake County
Colusa County, CA 49 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Napa County
Yolo County, CA 78 km (48 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yolo County
Glenn County, CA 78 km (48 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Glenn 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 8 km ESE of Cloverdale, CA
  2. 1.8 7 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  3. 1.5 4 km W of Cobb, CA
  4. 1.9 3 km ENE of The Geysers, CA
  5. 1.6 8 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 1.6 3 km W of Anderson Springs, CA
  7. 1.7 8 km ESE of Cloverdale, CA
  8. 1.7 7 km W of Cobb, CA
  9. 1.6 1 km ESE of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.6 5 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 1.7 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.8 7 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  13. 1.8 6 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  14. 2.8 4 km W of Cobb, CA
  15. 1.7 11 km NW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.1 on 2016-08-10 — it released about 53,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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