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M 2.2ml

17km SSE of Malibu, CA

· 9.7 km deep · released about 69 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 56 kmVentura County 66 kmOrange County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 56 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2984 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 69 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 220,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 14× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 69 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 33.8725, -118.7227. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 56 km (35 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 66 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Orange County, CA 90 km (56 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 9km SSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  2. 2.1 1km E of Santa Monica, CA
  3. 1.7 3km N of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  4. 1.6 2km WSW of Santa Monica, CA
  5. 1.5 25km S of Malibu, CA
  6. 1.5 3km WSW of Willowbrook, CA
  7. 2.3 3km W of San Pedro, CA
  8. 1.7 1km SSW of Gardena, CA
  9. 2.1 31km NNW of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  10. 2.6 12km W of Malibu, CA
  11. 2.0 1km NW of Hawthorne, CA
  12. 1.6 16km SW of Thousand Oaks, CA
  13. 1.6 2km NW of Marina del Rey, CA
  14. 1.8 2km NW of Lennox, CA
  15. 1.8 2km NW of Lennox, 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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