Short answer. Yes, potentially. Every piece of land or building is subject to a legal easement that prohibits its owner or possessor from committing nuisance through noise or jarring, among other causes, which means a neighbor running machinery that constantly vibrates or jars your property may be violating that easement.
What the law says
Every building or piece of land is subject to the easement which prohibits the proprietor or possessor from committing nuisance through noise, jarring, offensive odor, smoke, heat, dust, water, glare and other causes.
Civil Code, Article 682 — Easement Against Nuisance. Read the full provision →
An easement that runs against every property, automatically
This is not an easement someone has to negotiate or set up by agreement — it attaches to every building and every piece of land as a matter of law. It works by restricting what an owner or possessor of neighboring property may do: they are prohibited from committing nuisance through a specific, non-exhaustive list of causes, including noise, jarring, offensive odor, smoke, heat, dust, water, and glare. Vibration that jars your property from a neighbor's ongoing machinery use falls squarely within "jarring," one of the causes the provision names directly.
What has to be true for this to apply
The provision restrains conduct that rises to the level of a nuisance — meaning it is not triggered by every noise or vibration a neighbor's property produces, only by disturbance serious enough to constitute a nuisance to the affected property. Constant, ongoing vibration from machinery that disturbs your use and enjoyment of your own property, rather than an isolated or trivial disturbance, is the kind of situation this provision addresses. Whether a given level of vibration crosses that line is a factual question that depends on its intensity, frequency, and effect on the affected property.
Who this binds
The obligation falls on the proprietor or possessor of the property generating the disturbance, not just an owner in the strict sense — so it can reach a tenant, business operator, or anyone else in possession and control of the property running the machinery, in addition to the property's owner. Correspondingly, the easement protects the neighboring property being disturbed, giving its owner or possessor standing to object when jarring or vibration from next door crosses into nuisance.
What this provision does not settle by itself
This easement establishes that jarring and vibration can be a legally cognizable nuisance — it does not by itself spell out how to pursue a claim, what evidence is needed, or what remedy a court might order in a given case. It also does not matter whether the neighbor's machinery is otherwise being run lawfully, for a legitimate business, or with permits — a lawful business can still commit a nuisance under this provision if its jarring or vibration crosses the line into disturbing a neighboring property. Isolated, brief, or trivial vibration is unlikely to meet the threshold the way constant, ongoing disturbance would, since the easement is aimed at nuisance, not at every disturbance a neighboring activity might cause.