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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Ludlow in California


Earthquake location 34.6889992S, -116.2433319WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ludlow in California. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.96 km (1 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:15:09 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci37298159. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37298159. Exact location, longitude -116.2433319° West, latitude 34.6889992° North, depth = 0.96 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/16 / 2016-01-20 21:15:09 / January 20, 2016 @ 9:15 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barstow Heights, Fort Irwin, Barstow (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Twentynine Palms (c. 25 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yucca Valley (c. 20 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Big Bear City (c. 12 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km WSW of Ludlow, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2433319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6889992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW of Ludlow, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-20 21:15:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-20 21:17:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 122 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07601 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 42 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 ci37298159 Id of event.
Event Code 37298159 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37298159, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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