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M 1.9ml

25 km SW of Maricopa, CA

· 9.6 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Santa Barbara County 57 kmVentura County 76 kmSan Luis Obispo County 93 kmKern County 94 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
9.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Santa Barbara County, 57 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 545 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 25 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 38× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 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 34.9132, -119.6127. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Barbara County, CA 57 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Santa Barbara County
Ventura County, CA 76 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ventura County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Kern County, CA 94 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kern County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 13 km NE of Maricopa, CA
  2. 2.5 25 km SW of Maricopa, CA
  3. 2.8 7 km NNE of Taft, CA
  4. 1.5 21 km S of Maricopa, CA
  5. 1.7 20 km SW of Maricopa, CA
  6. 1.5 18 km N of Pine Mountain Club, CA
  7. 2.1 19 km NE of Maricopa, CA
  8. 1.7 25 km SW of Maricopa, CA
  9. 1.6 26 km SW of Maricopa, CA
  10. 1.5 16 km N of Goleta, CA
  11. 1.9 22 km NW of Grapevine, CA
  12. 1.9 17 km NE of Taft, CA
  13. 1.6 15 km SSE of Buttonwillow, CA
  14. 2.2 29 km ENE of Santa Ynez, CA
  15. 1.9 18 km S of Pine Mountain Club, 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.

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