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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2ml

11 km NW of Malibu, CA

· 11 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ventura County 39 kmLos Angeles County 61 kmOrange County 112 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
165 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Ventura County, 39 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 193 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 165 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 34.0648, -118.9002. 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 112 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

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

  1. 2.7 2 km NE of Sherman Oaks, CA
  2. 1.6 2 km NNE of Reseda, CA
  3. 1.6 10 km W of Santa Paula, CA
  4. 1.9 24 km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA
  5. 1.9 10 km NNE of Ventura, CA
  6. 1.8 14 km S of Las Flores, CA
  7. 3.3 14 km WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA
  8. 1.6 3 km NNE of Fillmore, CA
  9. 1.7 1 km NW of Pacoima, CA
  10. 1.9 6 km W of Chatsworth, CA
  11. 1.6 5 km NE of Ventura, CA
  12. 1.6 13 km W of Malibu, CA
  13. 2.1 15 km WNW of Malibu, CA
  14. 3.0 4 km S of Malibu Beach, CA
  15. 1.9 6 km WSW 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 660 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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