268 km W of Ferndale, California

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 41.0363, -127.3842. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.6 252 km WSW of Crescent City, California 07:08 UTC
2. 3.2 283 km WSW of Crescent City, California 04:03 UTC
3. 3.3 267 km W of Ferndale, California 15:10 UTC
4. 3.1 255 km W of Ferndale, California 17:57 UTC
5. 4.4 246 km W of Ferndale, California 02:57 UTC
6. 3.0 227 km WNW of Indianola, California 00:48 UTC
7. 2.8 253 km W of Ferndale, California 18:12 UTC
8. 2.5 off the coast of Northern California 15:42 UTC
9. 3.1 264 km W of Ferndale, California 21:25 UTC
10. 3.3 252 km WNW of Ferndale, California 20:57 UTC
11. 2.8 off the coast of Northern California 13:25 UTC
12. 4.9 257 km W of Ferndale, California 03:17 UTC
13. 2.7 262 km W of Ferndale, California 10:11 UTC
14. 2.5 254 km W of Ferndale, California 12:33 UTC
15. 3.2 258 km W of Ferndale, California 01:59 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 19:51 UTC. 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 5.1 on 2016-01-30 — it released about 1.4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.