Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.8md
23 km NNW of Chilcoot-Vinton, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.8 (md)
- Depth
- -1.5 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Plumas County, 53 km W
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 10 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
- 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 39.9992, -120.1968. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plumas County, CA | 53 km (33 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Plumas County |
| Sierra County, CA | 55 km (34 mi) | NNE of here | earthquakes near Sierra County |
| Storey County, NV | 85 km (53 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Storey County |
| Lassen County, CA | 87 km (54 mi) | SSE of here | earthquakes near Lassen County |
| Nevada County, CA | 92 km (57 mi) | NNE of here | earthquakes near Nevada County |
| Washoe County, NV | 93 km (58 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Washoe County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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
- 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
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.