Earthquake near Calistoga, CA

A magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded 7 km (5 mi) WSW of Calistoga, CA, at 11:47 am PDT on 29 September 2026 (18:47 UTC). 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS. This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Larkfield-Wikiup, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Deer Park, Saint Helena, Angwin.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 32 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 31,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 6.0 The 2014 South Napa, California Earthquake · 48 km SE of this epicentre Aug 24, 2014
2. 5.3 3 km E of Bloomfield, California · 30 km SSW of this epicentre Oct 2, 1969
3. 5.3 Northern California · 30 km SSW of this epicentre Oct 2, 1969

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 38.5542, -122.6600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 0.7 8 km W of Cobb, CA 07:12 UTC
2. 0.7 8 km W of Cobb, CA 07:11 UTC
3. 1.4 8 km W of Cobb, CA 07:10 UTC
4. 1.9 8 km W of Cobb, CA 07:09 UTC
5. 0.7 5 km NNW of The Geysers, CA 07:03 UTC
6. 1.8 4 km NW of Santa Rosa, CA 06:13 UTC
7. 0.5 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA 05:42 UTC
8. 1.0 2 km WSW of Anderson Springs, CA 04:48 UTC
9. 1.2 10 km WNW of The Geysers, CA 04:47 UTC
10. 1.7 3 km SSW of Anderson Springs, CA 04:30 UTC
11. 1.2 8 km W of Cobb, CA 03:14 UTC
12. 1.2 10 km WNW of The Geysers, CA 01:58 UTC
13. 0.8 10 km WNW of The Geysers, CA 01:56 UTC
14. 1.3 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA 22:19 UTC
15. 1.1 8 km ESE of Cloverdale, CA 22:08 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 01:03 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

Revisions

USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.

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.