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Minor earthquake 3.44 mag, 6 km W of Ventura, CA


Earthquake location 34.2693329S, -119.2959976WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ventura in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.2959976 West, latitude 34.2693329 North, depth = 12.89 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.89 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:05:39 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38229250. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38229250. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/11/19 / 2019-11-07 13:05:39 / November 7, 2019 @ 1:05 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, San Fernando. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (8 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Van Nuys (c. 136 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km W of Ventura, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.2959976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2693329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km W of Ventura, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-07 13:05:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-07 13:13:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 96 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 219 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 ci38229250 Id of event.
Event Code 38229250 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38229250, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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