Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Barstow in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Barstow in CA. The temblor was reported at 19:09:43 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 03:09:43 / January 25, 2020 @ 3:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.34 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci39281456. Ids that are associated to the event: ci39281456. Exact location of earthquake, -116.9676667° West, 35.0945° North, depth 2.34 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lucerne Valley, Adelanto, Apple Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Victorville (c. 115 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Apple Valley (c. 69 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Adelanto (c. 31 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eight hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km NNE of Barstow, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.9676667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0945° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NNE of Barstow, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-25 03:09:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-25 03:13:24	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	126	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.22	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	ci39281456	Id of event.
Event Code	39281456	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci39281456,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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