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M 1.5ml

3 km SSE of Greenhorn, California

· 9.9 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Plumas County 15 kmSierra County 38 kmNevada County 64 kmButte County 77 kmYuba County 85 kmPlacer County 90 kmLassen County 94 kmStorey County 115 kmCarson City 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
9.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Plumas County, 15 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1760 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 39.8756, -120.7398. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Plumas County, CA 15 km (9 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Plumas County
Sierra County, CA 38 km (24 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Nevada County, CA 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Nevada County
Butte County, CA 77 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Butte County
Yuba County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Yuba County
Placer County, CA 90 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Placer County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 5km SW of Greenville, CA
  2. 2.2 6km SW of Greenville, CA
  3. 1.5 1 km SW of Spring Garden, California
  4. 2.2 4km NE of Lake Davis, CA
  5. 2.3 4km S of Meadow Valley, CA
  6. 1.5 4 km N of Greenhorn, California
  7. 2.8 15km WSW of Loyalton, CA
  8. 1.7 4 km WNW of Sierra City, California
  9. 1.5 3 km WNW of Sierra City, California
  10. 2.2 16km WSW of Loyalton, CA
  11. 2.1 17km SSW of Loyalton, CA
  12. 1.6 4km N of Canyondam, CA
  13. 2.1 4km SE of Meadow Valley, CA
  14. 2.3 5km ENE of East Quincy, CA
  15. 2.1 16km WSW of Loyalton, 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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