Minor earthquake 3.44 mag, 6 km W of Ventura, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ventura in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.2959976 West, latitude 34.2693329 North, depth = 12.89 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.89 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:05:39 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ci38229250. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38229250. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/11/19 / 2019-11-07 13:05:39 / November 7, 2019 @ 1:05 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, San Fernando. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (8 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Van Nuys (c. 136 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km W of Ventura, CA.

CA Oxnard Oxnard Shores San Fernando Santa Clarita Santa Monica Sherman Oaks United States Valencia Van Nuys Ventura

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.44 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.2959976° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2693329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km W of Ventura, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-07 13:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-07 13:13:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	96	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	219	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	ci38229250	Id of event.
Event Code	38229250	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38229250,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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