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M 1.4md
Earthquake near Cambria, CA
Yes. A magnitude 1.4 earthquake was recorded 17 km (11 mi) north of Cambria, CA, at 8:47 pm PST on 14 November 2026 (04:47 UTC), 5.3 km deep. No felt reports to USGS yet. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 11 km NE of San Simeon, CA
- When
- 8:47 pm PST on 14 November 2026 ()
- Where
- 17 km (11 mi) north of Cambria, CA · earthquakes near Cambria
- Magnitude
- M 1.4 (md)
- Depth
- 5.3 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Monterey County, 61 km NNW
- Nearest mapped fault
- San Simeon fault, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 6 hours ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Lake Nacimiento.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 4.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.4 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,700,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,600,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 230× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.4 about 4.1 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.7 on 2021-10-25 — about 70,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 9 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.5 10 km NE of San Simeon, California · 2 km SSE of this epicentre
- 6.2 28km NW of Cambria, CA · 20 km W of this epicentre
- 5.8 1934 Parkfield, California Earthquake · 43 km ENE of this epicentre
- 5.7 Southwest of Cambria, California · 26 km SSW of this epicentre
- 5.2 26km NNW of Lake Nacimiento, CA · 29 km NNE of this epicentre
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 35.7183, -121.1103. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey County, CA | 61 km (38 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Monterey County |
| San Luis Obispo County, CA | 70 km (44 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County |
| San Benito County, CA | 99 km (62 mi) | N | earthquakes near San Benito County |
| Kings County, CA | 123 km (76 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Kings County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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.
On USGS
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