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M 1.6ml

6 km S of Taylorsville, California

· 8.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Plumas County 3 kmSierra County 56 kmButte County 77 kmLassen County 79 kmNevada County 81 kmYuba County 95 kmPlacer County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Plumas County, 3 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2457 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 40.0217, -120.8270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Plumas County, CA 3 km (2 mi) N of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Butte County, CA 77 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Lassen County, CA 79 km (49 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lassen County
Nevada County, CA 81 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Yuba County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yuba County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 1km NE of Twain, CA
  2. 1.5 4km N of Twain, CA
  3. 1.6 3km NW of Greenville, CA
  4. 1.5 7km NW of Indian Falls, CA
  5. 1.6 4km NNE of Almanor, CA
  6. 2.5 5km NNE of East Quincy, CA
  7. 1.6 3km ENE of Prattville, CA
  8. 1.9 8km WNW of Caribou, CA
  9. 1.5 1km WNW of Canyondam, CA
  10. 1.9 5km NE of Greenhorn, CA
  11. 2.5 4km NE of Greenhorn, CA
  12. 2.0 3km E of Prattville, CA
  13. 1.9 6km SE of Chester, CA
  14. 1.8 2km SSW of Canyondam, CA
  15. 1.9 20km SW of Whitehawk, 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.

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