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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 36 km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Rancho Palos Verdes in California on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7755 West, latitude 33.6738 North, depth = 17.528 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:27:56 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pnyn. Id of event: us7000pnyn. Global time and date of event 31/03/25 / 2025-03-31 03:27:56 / March 31, 2025 @ 3:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.528 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Paula, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta-Montrose. Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 36 km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7755° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.6738° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.528 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km WSW of Rancho Palos Verdes, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-31 03:27:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-31 03:40:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	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	158	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	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	us7000pnyn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pnyn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pnyn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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