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M 2.0ml

18km S of Santa Barbara, CA

· 1.4 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
1.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Santa Barbara County, 42 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1649 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 28 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 34.2618, -119.7180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Barbara County, CA 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Ventura County, CA 55 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ventura 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. 1.6 9km W of Isla Vista, CA
  2. 1.7 11km WSW of Ojai, CA
  3. 1.6 8km N of Carpinteria, CA
  4. 1.9 7km NNE of Carpinteria, CA
  5. 2.2 15km WNW of Ojai, CA
  6. 1.5 21km SSW of Carpinteria, CA
  7. 1.6 25km NNE of Montecito, CA
  8. 2.2 1km NNW of Santa Barbara, CA
  9. 2.2 25km NNE of Montecito, CA
  10. 1.6 25km NNE of Montecito, CA
  11. 1.7 24km NNE of Montecito, CA
  12. 1.7 10km NNW of Montecito, CA
  13. 1.9 18km NNE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  14. 1.8 18km NNE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  15. 2.2 19km NNE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), 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 5.3 on 2018-04-05 — it released about 92,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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