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M 1.8ml

5 km ESE of Doyle, California

· 7.6 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sierra County 62 kmPlumas County 66 kmStorey County 77 kmWashoe County 88 kmLassen County 93 kmCarson City 98 kmNevada County 100 kmPlacer County 119 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sierra County, 62 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3009 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. 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 40.0016, -120.0499. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sierra County, CA 62 km (39 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Plumas County, CA 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Storey County, NV 77 km (48 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Storey County
Washoe County, NV 88 km (54 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Washoe County
Lassen County, CA 93 km (58 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Carson City, NV 98 km (61 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Carson City

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 10km NNW of Loyalton, CA
  2. 2.5 10km NNW of Loyalton, CA
  3. 1.8 28 km NNE of Herlong, California
  4. 2.3 10km NNW of Loyalton, CA
  5. 1.6 13 km NE of Spanish Springs, Nevada
  6. 2.1 14km NNE of Lake Davis, CA
  7. 1.5 9km NNW of Loyalton, CA
  8. 1.5 Nevada
  9. 1.5 6 km NNE of Mogul, Nevada
  10. 2.3 8km NW of Honey Lake, CA
  11. 3.0 5km NW of Honey Lake, CA
  12. 1.8 5km NW of Honey Lake, CA
  13. 1.9 7km N of Loyalton, CA
  14. 2.7 1 km NNE of Beckwourth, California
  15. 1.9 15 km N of Sutcliffe, Nevada

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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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