Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Barstow in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Barstow in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.9831667 West, latitude 35.038 North, depth = 1.85 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.85 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/24 / 2024-10-02 17:45:50 / October 2, 2024 @ 5:45 pm. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:45:50 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40750535. Event ids that are associated: ci40750535.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hesperia, Lucerne Valley, Adelanto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hesperia (c. 90 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Adelanto (c. 31 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop).

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

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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: 16 km NNE of Barstow, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.9831667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Barstow, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-02 17:45:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-02 17:53:02	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	130	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.163	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	ci40750535	Id of event.
Event Code	40750535	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40750535,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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