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M 1.9ml

1km SSE of Sylmar, CA

· 8.5 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 20 kmVentura County 64 kmOrange County 93 kmKern County 119 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 20 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2242 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 34.3003, -118.4432. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 20 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Orange County, CA 93 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Kern County, CA 119 km (74 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 16km N of Fillmore, CA
  2. 1.8 1km SE of San Fernando, CA
  3. 2.5 1km NW of Bell, CA
  4. 1.6 7km ESE of Santa Clarita, CA
  5. 1.7 7km SSW of Pearblossom, CA
  6. 1.7 3km NE of Granada Hills, CA
  7. 1.5 2km S of Granada Hills, CA
  8. 1.5 6km S of Littlerock, CA
  9. 2.2 4km ESE of Los Angeles, CA
  10. 3.1 7km SSE of Littlerock, CA
  11. 2.0 4km WNW of Fillmore, CA
  12. 1.8 5km ESE of Simi Valley, CA
  13. 2.2 0km SSW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  14. 1.7 2km S of Malibu, CA
  15. 1.6 3km N of Montebello, 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 4.2 on 2020-07-30 — it released about 2,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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