Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Malibu in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Malibu in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.894165 West, latitude 34.0571671 North, depth = 12.24 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.24 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 20:07:16 / March 9, 2025 @ 8:07 pm. Id of earthquake: ci41075600. Event ids that are associated: ci41075600. The temblor was reported at 20:07:16 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acton, Sierra Madre, South El Monte (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NW of Malibu, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Acton CA Glendale Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu North Glendale Oxnard Sierra Madre South El Monte United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.894165° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0571671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NW of Malibu, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-09 20:07:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-09 20:14:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.632	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	135	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0647	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	ci41075600	Id of event.
Event Code	41075600	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41075600,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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