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M 2.7ml

2 km NE of Sherman Oaks, CA

· 5.4 km deep · released about 310 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Los Angeles County 17 kmVentura County 68 kmOrange County 81 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
751 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Los Angeles County, 17 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 30 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 751 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 310 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 50,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 35,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 310 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 34.1615, -118.4367. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Los Angeles County, CA 17 km (10 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
Ventura County, CA 68 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ventura County
Orange County, CA 81 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Orange County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 2 km NNE of Lomita, CA
  2. 2.0 18 km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  3. 1.9 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  4. 1.7 11 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  5. 1.7 3 km SSE of Malibu, CA
  6. 1.8 17 km WSW of El Segundo, CA
  7. 1.6 5 km SSE of Malibu, CA
  8. 1.7 2 km SW of Los Angeles, CA
  9. 1.7 4 km N of Gardena, CA
  10. 2.1 3 km N of Gardena, CA
  11. 1.5 4 km NNE of Gardena, CA
  12. 1.6 4 km N of Gardena, CA
  13. 2.3 4 km NNE of Gardena, CA
  14. 2.1 4 km NNE of Gardena, CA
  15. 2.0 4 km N of Gardena, 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 4.7 on 2024-09-12 — it released about 1,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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