Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Ludlow in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Ludlow in CA. Exact location, longitude -116.4086685° West, latitude 34.840168° North, depth = 1.31 km. Id of earthquake: ci41287832. Event ids that are associated: ci41287832. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.31 km (1 miles). The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:23:58 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/09/25 / 2025-09-10 05:23:58 / September 10, 2025 @ 5:23 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Big Bear City, Lucerne Valley, Barstow Heights. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Barstow Heights (c. 24 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barstow (c. 22 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Big Bear City (c. 12 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fort Irwin (c. 8 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lucerne Valley (c. 5 800 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 26 km WNW of Ludlow, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.4086685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.840168° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km WNW of Ludlow, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-10 05:23:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-10 05:26:17	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	133	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	ci41287832	Id of event.
Event Code	41287832	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41287832,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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