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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Santa Monica in CA

Posted by admin on May 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.0321655S, -118.5138321WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Santa Monica in CA on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 05:28:42 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/17 / 2017-05-02 05:28:42 / May 2, 2017 @ 5:28 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.67 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 8.67 km, -118.5138321° West, 34.0321655° North. Unique identifier: ci37637991. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37637991.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ventura, Chino, Montclair.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NW of Santa Monica, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5138321° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0321655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NW 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 2017-05-02 05:28:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-02 05:30:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 134 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 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01452 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 53 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 ci37637991 Id of event.
Event Code 37637991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37637991, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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