M2.0 earthquake 18km WNW of Round Mountain, CA
A magnitude 2.0 earthquake struck 18km WNW of Round Mountain, CA on Thu, May 20, 2021, 4:44 PM PDT (23:44 UTC), 13 km (8 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M2.5 31km WNW of Weaverville, CA. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.0 (Md, duration), micro
- Magnitude from
- Northern California Seismic System
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-05-20 23:44:45 UTC
- Depth
- 13.2 km (8.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 40.864° N, 122.144° W
- Region
- California
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 0.5 km horizontally, 0.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 73°
- Stations used
- 21
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 21 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.531km WNW of Weaverville, CA · 1960 days ago · 23 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.920km NE of Red Bluff, CA · 1957 days ago · 10 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.65km N of Millville, CA · 1955 days ago · 14 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.02km SW of McArthur, CA · 1939 days ago · 12 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.112km NNE of Shasta Lake, CA · 1938 days ago · 21 km deep · 17 km away
- 1.56km NNE of Millville, CA · 1936 days ago · 12 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.62km E of Palo Cedro, CA · 1933 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.514km N of Shingletown, CA · 1931 days ago · 12 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.919km NW of McArthur, CA · 1927 days ago · 4 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.228km NW of Weaverville, CA · 1926 days ago · 32 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.614km NNE of Mineral, CA · 1925 days ago · 3 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.515km ENE of Mineral, CA · 1923 days ago · 5 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.78km WNW of Chester, CA · 1923 days ago · 6 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.610km WSW of Round Mountain, CA · 1922 days ago · 12 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.813km ENE of Carrick, CA · 1920 days ago · 6 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.124km WNW of Weaverville, CA · 1917 days ago · 32 km deep · 91 km away · felt by 1
- 1.74km SSE of Mineral, CA · 1908 days ago · 3 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.221km ENE of McCloud, CA · 1908 days ago · 2 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.018km ESE of Anderson, CA · 1905 days ago · 13 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.85km SSE of Mineral, CA · 1904 days ago · 11 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.615km SSE of McCloud, CA · 1902 days ago · 7 km deep · 32 km away
Before
- 1.69km E of Millville, CA · 1962 days ago · 11 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.10km NE of Etna, CA · 1969 days ago · 14 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.010km ENE of French Gulch, CA · 1969 days ago · 15 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.925km N of Shasta Lake, CA · 1970 days ago · 20 km deep · 20 km away · felt by 16
- 1.913km W of Shingletown, CA · 1973 days ago · 17 km deep · 43 km away
- 1.72km NE of Chester, CA · 1973 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.729km N of Shasta Lake, CA · 1974 days ago · 14 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.219km WSW of Manton, CA · 1984 days ago · 15 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.83km WSW of Shasta Lake, CA · 1985 days ago · 17 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.010km WNW of Viola, CA · 1989 days ago · 10 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.89km ESE of Millville, CA · 1990 days ago · 16 km deep · 37 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event nc73565110. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC.