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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 8 km WSW of Ludlow, California

Posted by admin on January 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.6953333S, -116.2363333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ludlow in California on Tuesday. Event id: ci37295151. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37295151. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/16 / 2016-01-12 19:11:41 / January 12, 2016 @ 7:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:11:41 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 2.76 km, -116.2363333° West, 34.6953333° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.76 km (2 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow, Fort Irwin, Big Bear City. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Big Bear City (c. 12 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km WSW of Ludlow, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2363333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6953333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW of Ludlow, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-12 19:11:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-12 20:16:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 128 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci37295151 Id of event.
Event Code 37295151 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37295151, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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