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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

17km S of Carpinteria, CA

· 10 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 35 kmSanta Barbara County 60 kmLos Angeles County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 35 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2169 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 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 34.2448, -119.4840. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 60 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles County, CA 112 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 24km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  2. 2.0 15km S of Port Hueneme, CA
  3. 2.3 6km NW of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  4. 1.6 10km NNE of Ventura, CA
  5. 2.2 11km SSE of Santa Cruz Is. (NW end), CA
  6. 1.7 8km E of Ojai, CA
  7. 2.6 6km NNW of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  8. 1.7 12km WSW of Ventura, CA
  9. 1.8 25km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  10. 2.3 13km WSW of Ojai, CA
  11. 2.4 24km NW of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  12. 2.0 16km S of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  13. 1.8 10km ESE of Ojai, CA
  14. 2.2 6km WSW of Isla Vista, CA
  15. 2.2 30km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.1 on 2016-03-12 — it released about 5,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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