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Minor earthquake, 3.81 mag strikes near Ludlow in CA


Earthquake location 34.7050018S, -116.284668WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ludlow in CA on Thursday. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:41:24 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.31 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 16:41:24 / February 7, 2019 @ 4:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37523530. Unique identifier: ci37523530. Exact location, longitude -116.284668° West, latitude 34.7050018° North, depth = 1.31 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Desert Hot Springs (c. 25 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Apple Valley, Desert Hot Springs, Big Bear Lake (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 12 km W of Ludlow, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.284668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7050018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W of Ludlow, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-07 16:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 16:44:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 reviewed 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 223 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 84 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 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 ci37523530 Id of event.
Event Code 37523530 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37523530, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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