Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.8md
Earthquake near Bayview, CA
No earthquake was likely felt in Bayview in the 24 hours to 6:14 am PST (14:14 UTC). The last one was M 5.0, 125 km (78 mi) WSW, at 8:56 pm PST on 4 November 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 145 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Bayview
This page: a magnitude 1.8 earthquake was recorded 14 km (9 mi) west of Bayview, CA, at 8:11 am PDT on 28 October 2026 (15:11 UTC), 20 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 14 km W of Bayview, CA
- When
- 8:11 am PDT on 28 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 14 km (9 mi) west of Bayview, CA · earthquakes near Bayview
- Magnitude
- M 1.8 (md)
- Depth
- 20 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Humboldt County, 37 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Little Salmon fault, 10 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 15 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 it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Bayview, 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: Humboldt Hill, Eureka, Cutten, Pine Hills, Myrtletown, Ferndale.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 16 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 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 6.4 on 2022-12-20 — about 7,400,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 30 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 7.2 The 1980 Eureka, California Earthquake · 38 km NNE of this epicentre
- 6.6 32 km SW of Ferndale, California · 48 km SSW of this epicentre
- 6.5 The 1932 Eureka, California Earthquake · 8 km SE of this epicentre
- 6.5 30 km WSW of Ferndale, California · 43 km SSW of this epicentre
- 6.5 The 2010 Eureka, California Earthquake · 32 km WSW of this epicentre
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 40.7825, -124.3487. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humboldt County, CA | 37 km (23 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Humboldt County |
| Trinity County, CA | 105 km (65 mi) | E | earthquakes near Trinity County |
| Del Norte County, CA | 112 km (70 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Del Norte 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.
On USGS
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