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Light earthquake, 4.11 mag strikes near Trabuco Canyon in California


Earthquake location 33.7443352S, -117.4868317WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.11 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Trabuco Canyon in California on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 02:09:56 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4868317 West, latitude 33.7443352 North, depth = 10.14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.14 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Trabuco Canyon in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 10:09:56 / January 25, 2018 @ 10:09 am. Id of earthquake: ci38092312. Event ids that are associated: ci38092312, at00p33w8k.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lucerne Valley, Universal City, Burbank. Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 5 km NE of Trabuco Canyon, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4868317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7443352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of Trabuco Canyon, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-25 10:09:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 10:13:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 1 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 266 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,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01795 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38092312 Id of event.
Event Code 38092312 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38092312,at00p33w8k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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