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M 1.5ml

9km NW of Malibu, CA

· 9.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 41 kmLos Angeles County 60 kmOrange County 111 kmSanta Barbara County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 41 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1486 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 34.0537, -118.8885. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 111 km (69 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 118 km (74 mi) ESE 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

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

  1. 1.5 6km SSW of Malibu, CA
  2. 2.1 12km WNW of Malibu, CA
  3. 1.6 1km WSW of Chatsworth, CA
  4. 2.4 16km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  5. 1.9 1km E of Baldwin Hills, CA
  6. 2.1 17km W of Manhattan Beach, CA
  7. 2.0 2km NNE of Sherman Oaks, CA
  8. 1.8 2km ESE of Granada Hills, CA
  9. 2.0 9km WNW of Fillmore, CA
  10. 1.7 13km WNW of Malibu, CA
  11. 1.5 7km W of Fillmore, CA
  12. 2.8 26km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  13. 2.0 12km WNW of Malibu, CA
  14. 1.6 5km W of Chatsworth, CA
  15. 2.3 15km SSE of Port Hueneme, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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