Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Malibu in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Malibu in CA on Saturday. Id of earthquake: ci40741367. Event ids that are associated: ci40741367. Exact location of earthquake, -118.7979965° West, 34.0519981° North, depth 10.29 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:15:21 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.29 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 21:15:21 / September 21, 2024 @ 9:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Habra Heights, Valinda, La Puente. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop).

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

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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: 5 km NNE of Malibu, CA.

CA Glendale La Habra Heights La Puente Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu North Glendale Oxnard United States Valinda

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7979965° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0519981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NNE of Malibu, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-21 21:15:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-21 21:19:19	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	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.897	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	143	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	117	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01941	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	ci40741367	Id of event.
Event Code	40741367	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40741367,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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