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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag was detected near Santa Cruz Is. (E end) in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Santa Cruz Is. (E end) in CA on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 04:11:18 / May 3, 2019 @ 4:11 am. Event id: ci38343375. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38343375. Exact location of earthquake, -119.3048325° West, 33.8129997° North, depth 0.06 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.06 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:11:18 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Thousand Oaks (c. 126 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Simi Valley (c. 124 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Monica, Canoga Park, Santa Barbara. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km SE of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA.

CA Canoga Park Oxnard Oxnard Shores Santa Barbara Santa Cruz Is. (E end)Santa Monica Simi Valley Thousand Oaks United States Ventura

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.3048325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.8129997° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SE 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	2019-05-03 04:11:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-03 04:13:26	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	134	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3739	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	ci38343375	Id of event.
Event Code	38343375	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38343375,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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