Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.6ml
11km SW of Frazier Park, CA
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 7.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Ventura County, 44 km SSW
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1465 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 34.7480, -119.0213. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ventura County, CA | 44 km (28 mi) | NNE of here | earthquakes near Ventura County |
| Kern County, CA | 72 km (45 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Kern County |
| Los Angeles County, CA | 93 km (58 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Los Angeles County |
| Santa Barbara County, CA | 96 km (60 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Santa Barbara County |
| Orange County, CA | 165 km (103 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
56 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 7km W of Fillmore, CA
- 2.2 5km ESE of Ojai, CA
- 2.5 6km NW of Castaic, CA
- 2.3 5km ESE of Ojai, CA
- 2.1 6km ENE of Ojai, CA
- 1.8 8km SSW of Lamont, CA
- 1.9 8km ESE of Piru, CA
- 1.6 13km NNE of Ojai, CA
- 1.6 14km SW of Lamont, CA
- 2.3 6km W of Grapevine, CA
- 1.8 14km SW of Lamont, CA
- 1.6 11km SSE of Arvin, CA
- 1.8 15km N of Piru, CA
- 1.5 4km WNW of Fillmore, CA
- 2.4 13km NNW of Grapevine, 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 4.1 on 2016-03-12 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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