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M 1.5ml

6km SSW of Malibu, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 54 kmLos Angeles County 58 kmOrange County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 54 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1272 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 33.9517, -118.8230. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 54 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 101 km (63 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 129 km (80 mi) ESE 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. 1.6 6 km SSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  2. 1.9 3 km W of Topanga, CA
  3. 1.6 4 km NNE of Baldwin Hills, CA
  4. 1.7 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  5. 2.7 4 km ENE of Inglewood, CA
  6. 1.6 5 km NE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  7. 1.7 6 km E of Moorpark, CA
  8. 2.3 32 km W of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  9. 1.7 14 km SSW of Thousand Oaks, CA
  10. 1.5 10 km W of Malibu, CA
  11. 2.1 3 km NNE of Granada Hills, CA
  12. 1.7 1 km ENE of Lennox, CA
  13. 2.7 27 km SSW of Port Hueneme, CA
  14. 1.6 6km NNE of Chatsworth, CA
  15. 2.0 18km W 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 4.2 on 2023-01-25 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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