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Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Glen Avon in CA


Earthquake location 34.0428333S, -117.5063333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Glen Avon in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci38613000. Unique identifier: ci38613000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.36 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:39:44 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/05/19 / 2019-05-31 13:39:44 / May 31, 2019 @ 1:39 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.5063333° West, latitude 34.0428333° North, depth = 2.36 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Carson, Gardena, Hollywood (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 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 0 and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km NNW of Glen Avon, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5063333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0428333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Glen Avon, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-31 13:39:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-31 13:44:06 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 3.8 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 125 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 95 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 17 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 ci38613000 Id of event.
Event Code 38613000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38613000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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