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M 1.6md

15 km NE of New Pine Creek, Oregon

· 2.7 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
2.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Modoc County, 72 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 526 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× 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 7.3 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 42.1073, -120.1848. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Modoc County, CA 72 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Modoc County
Lake County, OR 78 km (48 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake County
Harney County, OR 145 km (90 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Harney County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 28 km SW of New Pine Creek, California
  2. 1.7 10 km NNE of New Pine Creek, Oregon
  3. 2.1 8 km WNW of Lakeview, Oregon
  4. 1.8 43 km E of Fort Bidwell, California
  5. 1.9 41 km ENE of Fort Bidwell, California
  6. 1.7 9 km WNW of Lakeview, Oregon
  7. 1.9 31 km ESE of Fort Bidwell, California
  8. 2.8 9 km WNW of Lakeview, Oregon
  9. 2.2 24 km NE of Fort Bidwell, California
  10. 1.7 1 km WNW of Lakeview, Oregon
  11. 1.9 23 km NE of Fort Bidwell, California
  12. 2.0 23 km NE of Fort Bidwell, California
  13. 1.8 23 km NE of Fort Bidwell, California
  14. 1.8 24 km NE of Fort Bidwell, California
  15. 1.6 22 km NE of Fort Bidwell, 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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