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M 1.5ml

6km SSW of Malibu, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 52 kmLos Angeles County 60 kmOrange County 104 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 52 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3673 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 6.2 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 33.9565, -118.8457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 52 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 104 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 127 km (79 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 6km W of Fillmore, CA
  2. 1.7 6km WSW of Fillmore, CA
  3. 2.0 6km W of Fillmore, CA
  4. 2.3 17km SW of Malibu, CA
  5. 2.8 2km SSE of Malibu, CA
  6. 1.8 10km SSW of Malibu, CA
  7. 1.8 4km ESE of Marina del Rey, CA
  8. 1.6 16km WNW of Malibu, CA
  9. 1.5 12km WNW of Malibu, CA
  10. 3.3 10km WSW of Malibu, CA
  11. 1.9 1km NNW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  12. 1.8 1km ENE of Inglewood, CA
  13. 2.2 2km ENE of Inglewood, CA
  14. 2.8 30km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  15. 2.6 31km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, 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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