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M 3.0ml

31km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA

· 5.9 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 62 kmSanta Barbara County 105 kmLos Angeles County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Ventura County, 62 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2621 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 33.8195, -119.3038. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Santa Barbara County, CA 105 km (65 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Los Angeles County, CA 105 km (65 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles 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. 2.2 20km S of Carpinteria, CA
  2. 2.1 10km SW of Westlake Village, CA
  3. 1.7 21 km NNE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  4. 1.6 4km WNW of Port Hueneme, CA
  5. 2.6 20km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  6. 3.1 23km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  7. 2.2 12km SW of Port Hueneme, CA
  8. 2.4 37km S of Port Hueneme, CA
  9. 1.7 9km WNW of Malibu, CA
  10. 1.8 15km WNW of Malibu, CA
  11. 2.4 18km N of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  12. 1.5 6km WSW of Malibu, CA
  13. 4.0 26km S of Port Hueneme, CA
  14. 2.0 20km SSE of Port Hueneme, CA
  15. 1.8 20km S of Malibu, 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 5.3 on 2018-04-05 — it released about 2,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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