Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Pacoima in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pacoima in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -118.4193333° West, 34.2828333° North, depth 7.08 km. The temblor was reported at 10:46:15 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.08 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 18:46:15 / March 13, 2019 @ 6:46 pm. Id of earthquake: ci38267559. Event ids that are associated: ci38267559.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fountain Valley, Villa Park, Oxnard Shores. Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 2 km E of Pacoima, CA.

Anaheim CA Fountain Valley Long Beach Los Angeles North Glendale Oxnard Oxnard Shores Pacoima United States Villa Park

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.4193333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2828333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km E of Pacoima, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-13 18:46:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-13 18:50:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04962	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	ci38267559	Id of event.
Event Code	38267559	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38267559,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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