Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Ludlow in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ludlow in California on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37527672. Unique identifier: ci37527672. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.36 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/16 / 2016-02-23 03:27:35 / February 23, 2016 @ 3:27 am. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:27:35 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -116.2454987° West, 34.6936684° North, depth 2.36 km.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Big Bear City (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow Heights, Fort Irwin, Barstow (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km WSW of Ludlow, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.2454987° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.6936684° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.36 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	2016-02-23 03:27:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-23 03:30:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	automatic	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	125	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07829	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	ci37527672	Id of event.
Event Code	37527672	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37527672,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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