Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Pedley in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pedley in CA on Thursday. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:03:43 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/20 / 2020-07-09 10:03:43 / July 9, 2020 @ 10:03 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.79 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci39285575. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39285575. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4601669° West, 33.9228325° North, depth 4.79 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was North Glendale, Gardena, West Athens (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 6 km SSE of Pedley, CA.

Anaheim CA Gardena Long Beach Los Angeles North Glendale Pedley Riverside Santa Ana United States West Athens

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4601669° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9228325° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE of Pedley, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-09 10:03:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-09 10:05:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	137	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	133	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05673	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 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	ci39285575	Id of event.
Event Code	39285575	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39285575,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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