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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

62 km W of Crescent City, California

· 36 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Del Norte County 80 kmCurry County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Del Norte County, 80 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 152 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 41.7178, -124.9483. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Del Norte County, CA 80 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Curry County, OR 103 km (64 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Curry County
Josephine County, OR 136 km (84 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Humboldt County, CA 141 km (88 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Humboldt County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 23 km WSW of Brookings, Oregon
  2. 1.5 58 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  3. 2.6 81 km WNW of Trinidad, CA
  4. 2.1 62 km WSW of Brookings, Oregon
  5. 4.8 89 km WSW of Crescent City, 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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