Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Ventura in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Ventura in California on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.05 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/19 / 2019-11-08 13:29:17 / November 8, 2019 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:29:17 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000696e. Ids that are associated to the event: ci38231778, us6000696e. Exact location of earthquake, -119.2882° West, 34.2675° North, depth 10.05 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Clarita, Northridge, Topanga (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Thousand Oaks (c. 126 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twelve 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km SSE of Ventura, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.2882° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SSE of Ventura, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-08 13:29:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-08 16:43:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	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	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	131	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.091	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 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	us6000696e	Id of event.
Event Code	6000696e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38231778,us6000696e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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