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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

5km NNW of Oak Park, CA

· 14 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 35 kmLos Angeles County 49 kmOrange County 111 kmSanta Barbara County 120 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 35 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3709 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 34.2195, -118.7893. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 35 km (22 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 49 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 111 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 120 km (75 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

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

  1. 2.1 7km WSW of Santa Monica, CA
  2. 2.2 5km NW of Malibu Beach, CA
  3. 1.9 19km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  4. 2.0 2km N of Castaic, CA
  5. 2.0 17km ESE of Port Hueneme, CA
  6. 2.6 7km NNE of Lake View Terrace, CA
  7. 2.2 11km N of Piru, CA
  8. 2.0 3km WSW of Panorama City, CA
  9. 2.3 14km SSE of Malibu Beach, CA
  10. 1.8 4km NW of Beverly Hills, CA
  11. 1.8 10km NW of Malibu, CA
  12. 2.3 1km S of Sherman Oaks, CA
  13. 1.6 2km SW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  14. 2.4 14km N of Santa Paula, CA
  15. 1.8 14km N of Santa Paula, 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 2,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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