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M 4.3mb

249 km W of Ferndale, California

· 10 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mb)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2330 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

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 40.8285, -127.1940. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 250 km W of Ferndale, California
  2. 3.0 258 km W of Ferndale, California
  3. 2.7 249 km W of Ferndale, California
  4. 3.2 250 km W of Ferndale, California
  5. 3.1 244 km W of Ferndale, California
  6. 3.2 242 km W of Ferndale, California
  7. 3.1 253 km W of Ferndale, California
  8. 3.0 230 km W of Ferndale, California
  9. 2.9 211km W of Ferndale, CA
  10. 2.9 243 km W of Ferndale, California
  11. 4.2 263 km W of Ferndale, California
  12. 3.1 238 km W of Ferndale, California
  13. 3.1 254 km W of Ferndale, California
  14. 3.1 241 km W of Ferndale, California
  15. 3.4 230 km W of Ferndale, California

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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