Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near Ludlow in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ludlow in CA on Thursday. Global time and date of event 22/10/20 / 2020-10-22 09:19:35 / October 22, 2020 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci39441199. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39441199. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:19:35 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -116.3428345° West, latitude 34.8601685° North, depth = 4.43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.43 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lucerne Valley (c. 5 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lucerne Valley, Barstow Heights, Barstow (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 23 km NW of Ludlow, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.3428345° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.8601685° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NW of Ludlow, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-22 09:19:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-22 09:21:42	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	162	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	ci39441199	Id of event.
Event Code	39441199	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39441199,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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