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M 1.4md

Earthquake near Redwood Valley, CA

Yes: an earthquake was likely felt in Redwood Valley in the last 24 hours. M 1.8, 9 km (5 mi) N of Redwood Valley, at 10:23 pm PST on 10 November 2026 (06:23 UTC); the estimated shaking in Redwood Valley was intensity II (weak). Every earthquake near Redwood Valley

This page: a magnitude 1.4 earthquake was recorded 8 km (5 mi) southeast of Redwood Valley, CA, at 9:54 am PST on 1 November 2026 (17:54 UTC), less than 1 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.

USGS: 8 km SE of Redwood Valley, CA

94 km (58 mi) NNW of Santa Rosa, CA

9:54 am PST, Nov 1, 2026 · · -0.6 km deep · released about 3.9 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mendocino County 35 kmLake County 36 kmGlenn County 76 kmColusa County 77 kmSonoma County 80 kmNapa County 106 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
9:54 am PST on 1 November 2026 ()
Where
8 km (5 mi) southeast of Redwood Valley, CA · earthquakes near Redwood Valley
Magnitude
M 1.4 (md)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mendocino County, 35 km NW
Nearest mapped fault
Maacama fault, 6 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 10 days ago

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. 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: Ukiah, Talmage, Upper Lake, North Lakeport, Nice, Lakeport.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 240× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.4 about 3.9 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 5.6 on 2026-06-24 — about 1,900,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.2 6 km ESE of Talmage, California · 12 km SSE 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 39.2223, -123.1342. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Mendocino County, CA 35 km (22 mi) NW earthquakes near Mendocino County
Lake County, CA 36 km (22 mi) ESE earthquakes near Lake County
Glenn County, CA 76 km (47 mi) NE earthquakes near Glenn County
Colusa County, CA 77 km (48 mi) E earthquakes near Colusa County
Sonoma County, CA 80 km (49 mi) SSE earthquakes near Sonoma County
Napa County, CA 106 km (66 mi) SE earthquakes near Napa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 10 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  2. 1.5 9 km ESE of Willits, CA
  3. 0.5 9 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  4. 0.4 10 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  5. 0.4 11 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  6. 0.8 11 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  7. 0.7 10 km WNW of Cobb, CA
  8. 0.4 10 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  9. 0.8 13 km WNW of The Geysers, CA
  10. 1.1 12 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  11. 0.7 11 km NW of The Geysers, CA
  12. 1.8 11 km N of Redwood Valley, 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

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