Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near Barstow in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Barstow in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/25 / 2025-02-18 05:50:16 / February 18, 2025 @ 5:50 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ci40188018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40188018. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:50:16 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.57 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.9823303 West, latitude 35.0366669 North, depth = 1.57 km.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hesperia (c. 90 200 pop), 62 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). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hesperia, Lucerne Valley, Adelanto (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km NNE of Barstow, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.9823303° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0366669° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.57 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	2025-02-18 05:50:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-18 05:57:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	142	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1617	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	ci40188018	Id of event.
Event Code	40188018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40188018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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