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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 10 km NNW of Santa Paula, CA


Earthquake location 34.4396667S, -119.1045WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Santa Paula in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.1045 West, latitude 34.4396667 North, depth = 7.44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/20 / 2020-08-20 22:56:36 / August 20, 2020 @ 10:56 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.44 km (5 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:56:36 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci39586640. Event ids that are associated: ci39586640.

Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Van Nuys (c. 136 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Universal City, Beverly Hills, Century City (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNW of Santa Paula, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4396667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Santa Paula, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-20 22:56:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-20 23:00:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 129 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 ci39586640 Id of event.
Event Code 39586640 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39586640, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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