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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

8km SE of Piru, CA

· 13 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 38 kmLos Angeles County 47 kmKern County 108 kmOrange 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
15 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Ventura County, 38 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1517 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 15 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 34.3740, -118.7220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 38 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Kern County, CA 108 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kern County
Orange County, CA 117 km (72 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

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

  1. 1.6 10km NNW of Piru, CA
  2. 1.7 13km NNW of Fillmore, CA
  3. 1.7 12km N of Piru, CA
  4. 1.7 12km N of Piru, CA
  5. 1.5 4km NW of Granada Hills, CA
  6. 1.8 16km NE of Ojai, CA
  7. 2.0 12km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  8. 1.9 6km S of Frazier Park, CA
  9. 1.6 3km ESE of Granada Hills, CA
  10. 1.5 14km NNE of Ojai, CA
  11. 2.0 14km NNE of Ojai, CA
  12. 1.5 3km SE of Camarillo, CA
  13. 1.6 7km NNE of Ventura, CA
  14. 1.9 15km NE of Ojai, CA
  15. 1.6 14km WNW 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 4.2 on 2020-07-30 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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