Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Piru in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Piru in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 04:18:02 / January 26, 2025 @ 4:18 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.25 km (11 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:18:02 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.813 West, latitude 34.3486667 North, depth = 18.25 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40851383. Id of event: ci40851383.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lomita, East Rancho Dominguez, West Carson (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SSW of Piru, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.813° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3486667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SSW of Piru, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-26 04:18:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-26 04:22:59	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	2	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	123	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	102	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09629	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	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	ci40851383	Id of event.
Event Code	40851383	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40851383,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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