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Minor earthquake 3.25 mag, 2 km N of Pacoima, CA


Earthquake location 34.3003349S, -118.4351654WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pacoima in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.4351654 West, latitude 34.3003349 North, depth = 9.27 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/20 / 2020-07-30 11:38:39 / July 30, 2020 @ 11:38 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:38:39 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.27 km (6 miles). Event id: ci39322383. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci39322383.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Los Angeles (c. 3 792 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Long Beach (c. 462 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Anaheim (c. 336 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 324 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from North Glendale (c. 203 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga (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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 2 km N of Pacoima, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4351654° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3003349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N of Pacoima, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-30 11:38:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-30 11:42:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 125 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.93 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 230 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 124 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 ci39322383 Id of event.
Event Code 39322383 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39322383, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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