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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Santa Monica in CA

Posted by admin on June 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.9893333S, -118.527WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Santa Monica in CA on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 7.3 km, -118.527° West, 33.9893333° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.3 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 18:46:35 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ci37611456. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37611456. Global time and date of event 24/06/16 / 2016-06-24 01:46:35 / June 24, 2016 @ 1:46 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmdale, Los Serranos, Claremont (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 5 km SW of Santa Monica, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9893333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SW of Santa Monica, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-24 01:46:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 01:50:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 126 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 ci37611456 Id of event.
Event Code 37611456 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37611456, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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