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M 2.8ml

31km NNW of Santa Barbara Is., CA

· 1.0 km deep · released about 400 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 69 kmLos Angeles County 97 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
1.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Ventura County, 69 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1499 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 400 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 27,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 400 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 33.7377, -119.1522. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 69 km (43 mi) S of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 97 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 121 km (75 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 7 km SW of Malibu, CA
  2. 1.6 6 km SSW of Malibu Beach, CA
  3. 1.7 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  4. 2.3 32 km W of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  5. 1.7 14 km SSW of Thousand Oaks, CA
  6. 1.5 10 km W of Malibu, CA
  7. 2.7 27 km SSW of Port Hueneme, CA
  8. 2.0 18km W of Malibu, CA
  9. 2.6 17km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  10. 1.8 31km NE of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  11. 2.0 18km SSW of Malibu, CA
  12. 3.7 21km SSW of Malibu, CA
  13. 1.7 26km S of Malibu, CA
  14. 2.0 13km WNW of Malibu, CA
  15. 1.8 10km WSW 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 83 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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