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M 1.6ml

5 km SSW of Malibu, California

· 15 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 53 kmLos Angeles County 55 kmOrange County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 53 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3387 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 33.9755, -118.7932. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 53 km (33 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 55 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 100 km (62 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 130 km (81 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

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

  1. 2.3 4km WSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  2. 1.6 2km SSE of Piru, CA
  3. 2.1 3km SE of Piru, CA
  4. 2.4 4km SE of Piru, CA
  5. 1.9 33km S of Malibu, CA
  6. 3.1 6km W of Topanga, CA
  7. 1.7 1km W of Woodland Hills, CA
  8. 1.8 13km SE of Malibu, CA
  9. 1.9 3km NNW of Beverly Hills, CA
  10. 1.9 6km N of Moorpark, CA
  11. 2.5 4km SE of Malibu, CA
  12. 2.5 6km SSE of Malibu, CA
  13. 1.9 12km SSE of Malibu Beach, CA
  14. 3.1 5km WNW of Willowbrook, CA
  15. 2.1 5km WNW of Willowbrook, 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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