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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

12km NNE of Piru, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 39 kmLos Angeles County 58 kmKern County 92 kmSanta Barbara County 117 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 39 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2015 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 34.5173, -118.7595. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 39 km (24 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Kern County, CA 92 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Santa Barbara County, CA 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Orange County, CA 130 km (81 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 8km NW of Fillmore, CA
  2. 3.6 8km WNW of Fillmore, CA
  3. 1.7 7km WNW of Lake Hughes, CA
  4. 1.9 8km SE of Neenach, CA
  5. 1.6 23km NNE of Ojai, CA
  6. 2.3 0km SSE of San Fernando, CA
  7. 2.2 3km S of Frazier Park, CA
  8. 1.6 3km WNW of Sylmar, CA
  9. 1.6 1km SE of Sylmar, CA
  10. 1.6 2km SSE of Chatsworth, CA
  11. 1.9 10km WSW of Grapevine, CA
  12. 2.5 8km NNW of Malibu, CA
  13. 1.6 3km N of Sylmar, CA
  14. 1.8 12km WSW of Lake Hughes, CA
  15. 1.8 12km WSW of Lake Hughes, 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 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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