Minor earthquake 2.83 mag, 20 km W of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Rancho Palos Verdes in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.1 km (-0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:03:42 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 06:03:42 / September 7, 2024 @ 6:03 am. Exact location, longitude -118.5993347° West, latitude 33.7254982° North, depth = -0.1 km. Unique identifier: ci40727055. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40727055.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Rio, Covina, Walnut (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km W of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Anaheim CA Covina El Rio Irvine Long Beach Los Angeles Rancho Palos Verdes Santa Ana United States Walnut

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.5993347° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.7254982° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km W of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-07 06:03:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 06:05:53	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	123	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1637	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	ci40727055	Id of event.
Event Code	40727055	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40727055,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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