Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Malibu in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Malibu in CA on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 21:38:18 / September 28, 2024 @ 9:38 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.69 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.901001 West, latitude 33.9695015 North, depth = 13.69 km. The temblor was detected at 21:38:18 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40747871. Event ids that are associated: ci40747871.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Palma, Whittier, South Whittier. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km WSW of Malibu, CA.

CA Glendale La Palma Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu North Glendale Oxnard South Whittier United States Whittier

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.901001° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.9695015° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km WSW 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	2024-09-28 21:38:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 21:44:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.555	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	reviewed	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	158	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	112	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08563	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	ci40747871	Id of event.
Event Code	40747871	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40747871,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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