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Minor earthquake 3.53 mag, 12 km WSW of Port Hueneme, CA


Earthquake location 34.0948334S, -119.3041687WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Port Hueneme in CA. Global time and date of event 06/04/16 / 2016-04-06 11:44:19 / April 6, 2016 @ 11:44 am UTC/GMT. The 3.53-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:44:19 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.1 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.3041687° West, latitude 34.0948334° North, depth = 1.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci37328079, nc72618345. Unique identifier: ci37328079.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Beverly Hills, San Fernando, Century City. Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Van Nuys (c. 136 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Thousand Oaks (c. 126 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 12 km WSW of Port Hueneme, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.3041687° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0948334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW of Port Hueneme, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-06 11:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-06 11:54:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 100 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.63 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 226 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,nc, 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 0.1099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 ci37328079 Id of event.
Event Code 37328079 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37328079,nc72618345, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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