Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Santa Paula in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Paula in CA. Unique identifier: ci41320696. Ids that are associated to the event: ci41320696. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:28:09 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.079834 West, latitude 34.408165 North, depth = 13.72 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.72 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 23:28:09 / October 26, 2025 @ 11:28 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culver City, Burbank, West Hollywood. Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Van Nuys (c. 136 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km NNW of Santa Paula, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Burbank CA Culver City Oxnard Oxnard Shores Santa Clarita Santa Paula United States Valencia Van Nuys West Hollywood

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.079834° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.408165° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NNW of Santa Paula, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-26 23:28:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-26 23:30:25	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	121	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05563	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	ci41320696	Id of event.
Event Code	41320696	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci41320696,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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