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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

2km NE of Gorman, CA

· 4.5 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 57 kmKern County 60 kmLos Angeles County 87 kmSanta Barbara County 114 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
4.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 57 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2498 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 970,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 680,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 61× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 34.8125, -118.8383. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 57 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Los Angeles County, CA 87 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 114 km (71 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

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

  1. 2.1 10km ESE of Maricopa, CA
  2. 1.6 10km ESE of Maricopa, CA
  3. 2.5 7km WNW of Lake Hughes, CA
  4. 1.6 9km WNW of Frazier Park, CA
  5. 1.6 16km NE of Ojai, CA
  6. 2.0 13km N of Grapevine, CA
  7. 1.5 18km SSW of Gorman, CA
  8. 2.2 8km WNW of Frazier Park, CA
  9. 2.3 8 km SW of Green Valley, California
  10. 1.6 13km SSW of Lamont, CA
  11. 1.8 14km WNW of Tehachapi, CA
  12. 1.7 2km SSE of Castaic, CA
  13. 2.4 13km N of Piru, CA
  14. 1.8 14km NNW of Santa Paula, CA
  15. 1.6 14km N of Castaic, 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 3,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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