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Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Ludlow in California


Earthquake location 34.715168S, -116.0370026WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ludlow in California on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.27 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 02/06/16 / 2016-06-02 11:11:22 / June 2, 2016 @ 11:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -116.0370026° West, 34.715168° North, depth 2.27 km. Event id: ci37367207. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37367207. The temblor was reported at 04:11:22 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Joshua Tree (c. 7 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 11 km E of Ludlow, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.0370026° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.715168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km E 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 2016-06-02 11:11:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-02 11:13:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 162 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 0.0996 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 37 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 ci37367207 Id of event.
Event Code 37367207 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37367207, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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