4km NW of Frazier Park, CA

2018-05-16 20:01 UTC · 13 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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: 2018-05-16 20:01 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.0 (ml)
Depth: 13 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Ventura County, 56 km SSW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2984 days ago · we first saw it 2984 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 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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

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Epicentre 34.8447, -118.9738. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Ventura County, CA	56 km (35 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA	60 km (37 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Kern County
Los Angeles County, CA	97 km (60 mi)	NW of here	earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA	103 km (64 mi)	ENE 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

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

1.7 7km NW of Pine Mountain Club, CA 14:56 UTC
1.8 25km ENE of Maricopa, CA 01:36 UTC
1.6 17km S of Maricopa, CA 03:18 UTC
1.5 15km WNW of Grapevine, CA 00:34 UTC
1.7 24km ENE of Maricopa, CA 20:57 UTC
1.9 14km WNW of Pine Mountain Club, CA 18:49 UTC
1.8 6km WNW of Castaic, CA 03:46 UTC
2.7 12km NE of Ojai, CA 15:18 UTC
1.6 17km ESE of Arvin, CA 00:27 UTC
1.9 17km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA 13:21 UTC
3.0 5km WNW of Arvin, CA 04:12 UTC
1.7 6km WNW of Castaic, CA 17:18 UTC
2.1 18km NNW of Neenach, CA 10:04 UTC
1.6 10km E of Taft, CA 20:45 UTC
1.8 21km SSW of Frazier Park, CA 06:42 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:41 UTC. 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 1,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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