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M 1.8ml

4km NNE of Elizabeth Lake, CA

· 8.3 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 56 kmVentura County 79 kmKern County 80 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
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 56 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2071 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 14 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 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 34.6940, -118.3683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Kern County, CA 80 km (50 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kern County
Orange County, CA 126 km (78 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 6km SE of Mojave, CA
  2. 2.3 8km SSW of Pearblossom, CA
  3. 2.9 1km NNE of San Fernando, CA
  4. 1.7 11km W of Mojave, CA
  5. 1.5 7km SSW of Mojave, CA
  6. 1.5 6km S of Mojave, CA
  7. 1.6 6km S of Mojave, CA
  8. 1.5 7km SSW of Mojave, CA
  9. 1.6 6km S of Mojave, CA
  10. 1.6 17km NNW of Neenach, CA
  11. 1.7 13km N of Piru, CA
  12. 1.5 7km S of Mojave, CA
  13. 1.6 11km NNW of Piru, CA
  14. 2.1 12km NNW of Piru, CA
  15. 1.6 2km SE of Granada Hills, 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 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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