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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Santa Cruz Is. (E end) in CA


Earthquake location 33.7545013S, -119.38517WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Santa Cruz Is. (E end) in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37475303. Id of event: ci37475303. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:27:53 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.66 km (0 miles). Global time and date of event 10/09/16 / 2016-09-10 22:27:53 / September 10, 2016 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -119.38517° West, 33.7545013° North, depth 0.66 km.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Thousand Oaks (c. 126 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Camarillo (c. 65 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ojai, Mira Monte, Las Flores (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km SSE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.38517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7545013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SSE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-10 22:27:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-10 22:30:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 138 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 ci37475303 Id of event.
Event Code 37475303 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37475303, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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