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Minor earthquake 3.07 mag, 2 km SE of Ontario, CA


Earthquake location 34.0395012S, -117.6068344WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ontario in CA on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ew1727812580, ci40749799. Unique identifier: ci40749799. The temblor was picked up at 19:56:21 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 19:56:21 / October 1, 2024 @ 7:56 pm. Exact location, longitude -117.6068344° West, latitude 34.0395012° North, depth = 5.7 km.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sherman Oaks, Marina del Rey, Palos Verdes Estates. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 2 km SE of Ontario, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6068344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0395012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SE of Ontario, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-01 19:56:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-01 20:01:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.162 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 150 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 ,ew,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006297 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 ci40749799 Id of event.
Event Code 40749799 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1727812580,ci40749799, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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