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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

14km W of Malibu, CA

· 17 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 40 kmLos Angeles County 67 kmSanta Barbara County 114 kmOrange County 116 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
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 40 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1922 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 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 34.0237, -118.9645. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 67 km (42 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 114 km (71 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Orange County, CA 116 km (72 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6km SE of Piru, CA
  2. 2.3 16km SSE of Port Hueneme, CA
  3. 2.2 25km N of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  4. 2.4 19km SSE of Port Hueneme, CA
  5. 2.4 19km SSE of Port Hueneme, CA
  6. 2.5 20km SSE of Port Hueneme, CA
  7. 1.9 8km NW of Malibu, CA
  8. 1.7 4km SSW of Moorpark, CA
  9. 2.2 11km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  10. 1.8 2km WNW of Marina del Rey, CA
  11. 2.0 8km NW of Fillmore, CA
  12. 3.6 8km WNW of Fillmore, CA
  13. 2.3 15km SE of Malibu, CA
  14. 1.9 14km SE of Malibu, CA
  15. 2.8 15km SE 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 4.0 on 2020-01-02 — it released about 2,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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