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Minor earthquake, 3.81 mag was detected near Ojai in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ojai in California. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:42:39 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 08:42:39 / March 12, 2016 @ 8:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth -0.13 km, -119.072998° West, 34.5396652° North. Event id: ci37534768. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o3x472, ci37534768. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.13 km (-0 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Glendale (c. 191 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hollywood (c. 167 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ladera Heights, Vincent, Palmdale (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km ENE of Ojai, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

California Glendale Hollywood Ladera Heights North Glendale Ojai Oxnard Oxnard Shores Palmdale Santa Clarita United States Vincent

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.072998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.5396652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km ENE of Ojai, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-12 08:42:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-12 08:55:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	243	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.96	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	1	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	323	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	,at,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	99	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37534768	Id of event.
Event Code	37534768	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00o3x472,ci37534768,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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