Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Malibu in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Malibu in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000pdza. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40186290, us7000pdza. Global time and date of event 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 14:30:11 / February 15, 2025 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:30:11 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9242 West, latitude 34.0251 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rossmoor, South Whittier, Sierra Madre (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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 13 km W of Malibu, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9242° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0251° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km W of Malibu, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-15 14:30:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-18 17:56:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	881	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.373	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	reviewed	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	546	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.124	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us7000pdza	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pdza	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40186290,us7000pdza,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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