Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Lennox in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lennox in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.39 km (8 miles). Id of earthquake: ci40742791. Event ids that are associated: ci40742791. Exact location of event, depth 13.39 km, -118.3608322° West, 33.9398346° North. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:48:52 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/24 / 2024-09-23 11:48:52 / September 23, 2024 @ 11:48 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 17 km (10 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Irvine (c. 212 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Quartz Hill. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Anaheim CA Irvine Lennox Long Beach Los Angeles Oxnard Port Hueneme Quartz Hill Santa Ana United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.3608322° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9398346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km WNW of Lennox, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-23 11:48:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-23 11:52:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.863	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	156	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	129	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03348	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	ci40742791	Id of event.
Event Code	40742791	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40742791,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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