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M 1.8ml

6km WSW of Malibu, CA

· 21 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 49 kmLos Angeles County 61 kmOrange County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ventura County, 49 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1616 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 33.9768, -118.8637. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 49 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Orange County, CA 106 km (66 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 125 km (77 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

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

  1. 2.9 17km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  2. 3.6 16km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  3. 4.2 16km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  4. 2.3 2km NNE of Sherman Oaks, CA
  5. 1.9 8km ESE of Piru, CA
  6. 2.0 4km WSW of Marina del Rey, CA
  7. 2.1 1km SSW of Hermosa Beach, CA
  8. 1.5 4km WNW of Fillmore, CA
  9. 2.0 4km ENE of Simi Valley, CA
  10. 2.5 0km SSW of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  11. 1.6 1km ESE of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA
  12. 1.5 4km NW of Granada Hills, CA
  13. 2.0 12km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  14. 2.8 33km NW of Santa Barbara Is., CA
  15. 1.6 3km ESE of Granada Hills, 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 1,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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