Minor earthquake, 3.74 mag strikes near San Nicolas Is. in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 48 km SE of San Nicolas Is., CA (30 miles). Unique identifier: ci39013463. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006r2m, ci39013463. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.83 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 23:15:05 / December 25, 2019 @ 11:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.1581667 West, latitude 32.9236667 North, depth = 5.83 km. The temblor was reported at 15:15:05 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SE of San Nicolas Is., CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.74 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1581667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9236667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km SE of San Nicolas Is., CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-25 23:15:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-02 16:16:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	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	,us,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5656	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	308	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	ci39013463	Id of event.
Event Code	39013463	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006r2m,ci39013463,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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