Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Pacoima in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pacoima in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.4413333 West, latitude 34.2935 North, depth = 9.2 km. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:49:17 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/20 / 2020-07-30 13:49:17 / July 30, 2020 @ 1:49 pm. Unique identifier: ci39322775. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39322775. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.2 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ontario, Los Serranos, Upland. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km NNW of Pacoima, CA.

Anaheim CA Long Beach Los Angeles Los Serranos North Glendale Ontario Oxnard Pacoima United States Upland

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.4413333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2935° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km NNW of Pacoima, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-30 13:49:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-30 13:54:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03344	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	ci39322775	Id of event.
Event Code	39322775	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39322775,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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