Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Johannesburg in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Johannesburg in CA. Exact location of event, depth 5.84 km, -117.8061676° West, 35.3408318° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ci40932807. Unique identifier: ci40932807. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.84 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:44:07 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/25 / 2025-04-19 07:44:07 / April 19, 2025 @ 7:44 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Lancaster, Bear Valley Springs (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Rosamond (c. 18 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tehachapi (c. 14 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km WSW of Johannesburg, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.14 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.8061676° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3408318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km WSW of Johannesburg, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-19 07:44:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-19 07:46:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	152	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	ci40932807	Id of event.
Event Code	40932807	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40932807,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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