Quakedle
Puzzle #9 was 2024 Offshore Cape Mendocino, California Earthquake.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M7.0 — major class
- Magnitude type
- mw — moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- California and Nevada
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator set
- Felt reports
- 16,883 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- yellow PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Pacific Plate · North American Plate
- Tectonic context
- Much of this region deforms around the transform boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, including the San Andreas system.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M7.0. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Major (M7.0–7.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “2024 Offshore Cape Mendocino, California Earthquake”. Which broad authored region matches?
- California and Nevada
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- Yes — the USGS event record has its tsunami indicator set.
- USGS received 16,883 “Did You Feel It?” reports. Which band is that?
- Very widely felt (1,000+)