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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.0mw

10km NW of Santa Paula, CA

· 20 km deep · released about 14 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 7 kmLos Angeles County 84 kmSanta Barbara County 84 kmKern County 109 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 4.0 (mw)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
2099 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Ventura County, 7 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 290 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2099 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 540× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 14 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 30× more

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 34.4212, -119.1320. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 7 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 84 km (52 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Santa Barbara County, CA 84 km (52 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Kern County, CA 109 km (68 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 11km NNW of Fillmore, CA
  2. 1.5 10km ESE of Ojai, CA
  3. 2.8 10km ESE of Ojai, CA
  4. 1.9 17km W of Malibu, CA
  5. 1.8 6km WSW of Valencia, CA
  6. 1.9 6km WSW of Valencia, CA
  7. 1.7 7km NW of Fillmore, CA
  8. 2.0 2km NNE of Castaic, CA
  9. 2.6 8km SE of Piru, CA
  10. 2.1 4km S of Frazier Park, CA
  11. 2.7 10km E of Carpinteria, CA
  12. 1.6 13km NNW of Fillmore, CA
  13. 1.6 15km NNW of Fillmore, 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 4.1 on 2016-03-12 — it released about 1.7 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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