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M 1.6ml

17km WNW of Malibu, CA

· 12 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 37 kmLos Angeles County 68 kmSanta Barbara County 111 kmOrange County 119 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 37 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1672 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. 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 34.0525, -118.9847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 68 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 111 km (69 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Orange County, CA 119 km (74 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6km NNW of Ventura, CA
  2. 2.7 7km NNE of Ventura, CA
  3. 2.3 12km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  4. 1.8 11km NW of Fillmore, CA
  5. 2.0 11km NNW of Fillmore, CA
  6. 2.2 12km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  7. 2.0 11km SW of Marina del Rey, CA
  8. 1.5 10km ESE of Ojai, CA
  9. 2.8 10km ESE of Ojai, CA
  10. 1.9 17km W of Malibu, CA
  11. 2.8 31km NNW of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  12. 1.7 7km NW of Fillmore, CA
  13. 2.6 8km SE of Piru, CA
  14. 1.5 9km ESE of Ojai, CA
  15. 2.3 10km SSW of Valencia, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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