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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.6mw

11 km WNW of Malibu, CA

· 15 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 39 kmLos Angeles County 61 kmOrange County 113 kmSanta Barbara County 117 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 4.6 (mw)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
16945 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Ventura County, 39 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 33 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 16945 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 61× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 260× 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 34.0575, -118.9077. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ventura County, CA 39 km (24 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 113 km (70 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orange County
Santa Barbara County, CA 117 km (73 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

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

  1. 2.0 7 km E of Port Hueneme, CA
  2. 1.9 17 km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  3. 1.9 13 km W of Port Hueneme, CA
  4. 2.3 10 km SSW of Valencia, CA
  5. 1.9 10 km SW of Valencia, CA
  6. 2.3 22 km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  7. 1.6 13 km SSE of Las Flores, CA
  8. 2.0 11 km SSW of Malibu, CA
  9. 1.9 2 km ENE of El Segundo, CA
  10. 2.4 12 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  11. 1.7 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  12. 2.0 3 km SE of Marina del Rey, CA
  13. 1.6 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  14. 1.7 4 km NW of Sylmar, CA
  15. 1.5 11 km W of Malibu, 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 5.1 on 2023-08-20 — it released about 5.1 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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