Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag was detected near Boron in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Boron in CA on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 05:27:56 / January 23, 2025 @ 5:27 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ci41033904. Unique identifier: ci41033904. Exact location of event, depth 1.99 km, -117.3538361° West, 35.1590004° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.99 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:27:56 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hesperia (c. 90 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Adelanto (c. 31 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hesperia, Rosamond, Apple Valley (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 32 km ENE of Boron, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.3538361° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1590004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km ENE of Boron, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-23 05:27:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-23 05:33:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.069	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	184	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	111	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 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	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci41033904	Id of event.
Event Code	41033904	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41033904,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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