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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

13km N of Piru, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 37 kmLos Angeles County 61 kmKern County 91 kmSanta Barbara County 115 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 37 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1913 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× 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 34.5310, -118.7860. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 37 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Kern County, CA 91 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Santa Barbara County, CA 115 km (71 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Orange County, CA 133 km (83 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. 2.3 10km NW of Santa Paula, CA
  2. 2.0 10km NW of Santa Paula, CA
  3. 2.1 8km SW of Camarillo, CA
  4. 1.6 9km SE of Piru, CA
  5. 2.3 8km SE of Piru, CA
  6. 1.6 6km W of Ojai, CA
  7. 2.3 3km SSE of Frazier Park, CA
  8. 1.7 9km SE of Piru, CA
  9. 1.6 6km SE of Piru, CA
  10. 1.7 10km NNW of Piru, CA
  11. 1.6 25km SSW of Frazier Park, CA
  12. 1.9 4km WSW of Ojai, CA
  13. 3.2 5km WSW of Ojai, CA
  14. 2.5 18km NE of Lebec, CA
  15. 1.9 18km E of Grapevine, 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 4,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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