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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

16km N of Santa Paula, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 450 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 16 kmLos Angeles County 82 kmSanta Barbara County 88 kmKern County 100 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Ventura County, 16 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3141 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 450 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 34,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 24,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 450 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 34.4937, -119.0740. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 16 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 82 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Kern County, CA 100 km (62 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kern County
Orange County, CA 150 km (93 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

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

  1. 1.8 7km WSW of Valencia, CA
  2. 2.4 7km WSW of Valencia, CA
  3. 2.1 7km WSW of Valencia, CA
  4. 2.7 12km NE of Ojai, CA
  5. 1.7 6km WNW of Castaic, CA
  6. 1.6 3km ESE of Fillmore, CA
  7. 1.5 4km SW of Carpinteria, CA
  8. 3.0 6km S of Ojai, CA
  9. 1.8 21km SSW of Frazier Park, CA
  10. 2.1 16km N of Santa Paula, CA
  11. 1.5 16km N of Santa Paula, CA
  12. 1.6 16km ENE of Ojai, CA
  13. 1.6 16km SW of Thousand Oaks, CA
  14. 1.6 14km NE of Ojai, CA
  15. 1.5 16km NW of Fillmore, 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 110 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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