Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near South Pasadena in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from South Pasadena in CA. Unique identifier: ci41002880. Ids that are associated to the event: ci41002880. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:04:31 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 18:04:31 / December 16, 2024 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.11 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -118.1616667 West, latitude 34.0895 North, depth = 11.11 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Riverside (c. 303 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laguna Niguel, Coto De Caza, Muscoy.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km SSW of South Pasadena, CA.

Anaheim CA Coto De Caza Laguna Niguel Long Beach Los Angeles Muscoy Riverside Santa Ana South Pasadena United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.1616667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0895° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SSW of South Pasadena, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-16 18:04:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-16 18:11:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	22	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	133	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	135	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04857	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	13	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	ci41002880	Id of event.
Event Code	41002880	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41002880,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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