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M 1.5ml

9km NNE of Castaic, CA

· 18 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 52 kmVentura County 54 kmKern County 88 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 52 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3421 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 5.6 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 2,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.6 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 34.5670, -118.5990. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 54 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA 88 km (54 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Orange County, CA 125 km (77 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5km NNW of Vincent, CA
  2. 1.9 6km N of Moorpark, CA
  3. 1.6 23km SSW of Frazier Park, CA
  4. 1.6 15km N of Fillmore, CA
  5. 1.7 14km N of Fillmore, CA
  6. 1.9 3km SE of Chatsworth, CA
  7. 1.8 5km ENE of Lebec, CA
  8. 1.7 3km NW of Castaic, CA
  9. 3.4 3km NW of Castaic, CA
  10. 1.6 4km S of Frazier Park, CA
  11. 1.9 15km N of Santa Paula, CA
  12. 2.0 1km SSW of Sherman Oaks, CA
  13. 1.7 1km NNW of Frazier Park, CA
  14. 1.6 21km N of Fillmore, CA
  15. 1.8 3km NW of Frazier Park, 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 8,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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